Edmund Burke: “There is no equality among us; we are not fellow-citizens, if the mariner who lands on the quay does not rest on as firm…”

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…

Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.

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

An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.