Edmund Burke: “But even if I were certain of my safety, I could not easily forgive those who had brought me into the most dreadful…”

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

They threw a politic, well-wrought veil over every circumstance tending to weaken the rights which in the meliorated order of succession they meant to perpetuate, or which might furnish a precedent for any future departure from what they…

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.

When such an unwarrantable maxim is once established, that no throne is lawful but the elective, no one act of the princes who preceded this era of fictitious election can be valid.