Edmund Burke: “In fact, the exclusion of them seems to me only to mark jealousy and suspicion, and not to provide security in any…”

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

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

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.

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