Edmund Burke: “I have this comfort,--that, in every stage of the American affairs, I have steadily opposed the measures that have…”

But the course of succession is the healthy habit of the British Constitution.

All your sophisters cannot produce anything better adapted to preserve a rational and manly freedom than the course that we have pursued, who have chosen our nature rather than our speculations, our breasts rather than our inventions, for…

This is the spirit of our Constitution, not only in its settled course, but in all its revolutions.

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.