Edmund Burke: “To those who say it is a bad one, I answer, Look to its effects.”

The speculative line of demarcation, where obedience ought to end and resistance must begin, is faint, obscure, and not easily definable.

We procure reverence to our civil institutions on the principle upon which Nature teaches us to revere individual men: on account of their age, and on account of those from whom they are descended.

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

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