Edmund Burke: “Moral order of things, great disasters in it affect the mind like miracles in the physical, iii. 337.”

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

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

The ceremony of cashiering kings, of which these gentlemen talk so much at their ease, can rarely, if ever, be performed without force.

Governments must be abused and deranged indeed, before it can be thought of; and the prospect of the future must be as bad as the experience of the past.