Edmund Burke: “If the Act of Toleration were not perfect, if there were a complaint of it, I would gladly consent to amend it.”

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…

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

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.

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