Edmund Burke: “They are always considering the formal distributions of power in a constitution: the moral basis they consider as…”

It therefore secures both an hereditary crown and an hereditary allegiance.

They look upon the legal hereditary succession of their crown as among their rights, not as among their wrongs,--as a benefit, not as a grievance,--as a security for their liberty, not as a badge of servitude.

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

Who could flatter himself that these men, suddenly, and as it were by enchantment, snatched from the humblest rank of subordination, would not be intoxicated with their unprepared greatness?