Edmund Burke: “He not only collected with great care a complete body of laws, but he wrote comments on them for the instruction of his…”

It therefore secures both an hereditary crown and an hereditary allegiance.

The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.

But supposing they had ranked as they ought to do, and as with us they do actually, the sides of sick-beds are not the academies for forming statesmen and legislators.

We procure reverence to our civil institutions on the principle upon which Nature teaches us to revere individual men: on account of their age, and on account of those from whom they are descended.