Edmund Burke: “An individual is not of the same importance in a mass represented by a few as in a mass represented by many.”

So far is it from being true that we acquired a right by the Revolution to elect our kings, that, if we had possessed it before, the English nation did at that time most solemnly renounce and abdicate it, for themselves, and for all their…

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.

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.