Edmund Burke: “I rejoiced at his punishment neither more nor less than I should at the execution of the present Directory, or any of…”

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…

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.

By adhering in this manner and on those principles to our forefathers, we are guided, not by the superstition of antiquarians, but by the spirit of philosophic analogy.

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