Edmund Burke: “I knew indeed that this prosperity contained in itself the seeds of its own danger.”

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

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.

Those who are servants in name, as well as in effect, do not like to be told of their situation, their duty, and their obligations.

The House of Lords, for instance, is not morally competent to dissolve the House of Commons,--no, nor even to dissolve itself, nor to abdicate, if it would, its portion in the legislature of the kingdom.