Edmund Burke: “Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.”

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

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.

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

Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity.