Edmund Burke: “Therefore I dismiss the idea that any man so acting could have had a good intention in his mind: the supposition is too…”

By adhering in this manner and on those principles to our forefathers, we are guided, not by the superstition of antiquarians, but by the spirit of philosophic analogy.

No experience has taught us that in any other course or method than that of an hereditary crown our liberties can be regularly perpetuated and preserved sacred as our hereditary right.

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.

They have little regard to the obvious consequences of their doctrine, though they may see that it leaves positive authority in very few of the positive institutions of this country.