Edmund Burke: “My ideas and my principles led me, in this contest, to encounter France, not as a state, but as a faction.”

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

No experience has taught us that in any other course or method than that of an hereditary crown our liberties can be regularly perpetuated and preserved sacred as our hereditary right.

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

This idea of a liberal descent inspires us with a sense of habitual native dignity, which prevents that upstart insolence almost inevitably adhering to and disgracing those who are the first acquirers of any distinction.