Edmund Burke: “If I happened to be now and then in the wrong, (as who is not?) like all other men, I must bear the consequence of my…”

A few years ago I should be ashamed to overload a matter so capable of supporting itself by the then unnecessary support of any argument; but this seditious, unconstitutional doctrine is now publicly taught, avowed, and printed.

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

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

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.