Edmund Burke: “Through this series of foreign and learned prelates, continual accessions were made to the originally slender stock of…”

The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.

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.

A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

Their objects would be enlarged with their elevation; but their disposition, and habits, and mode of accomplishing their designs must remain the same.