Edmund Burke: “The Scripture is no one summary of doctrines regularly digested, in which, a man could not mistake his way.”

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

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.

They look on the frame of their commonwealth, such as it stands, to be of inestimable value; and they conceive the undisturbed succession of the crown to be a pledge of the stability and perpetuity of all the other members of our…

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