Edmund Burke: “They serve to demonstrate how necessary it is at all times to watch against the attempted encroachment of power, and to…”

Those who are servants in name, as well as in effect, do not like to be told of their situation, their duty, and their obligations.

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

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

Who could conceive that men who are habitually meddling, daring, subtle, active, of litigious dispositions and unquiet minds, would easily fall back into their old condition of obscure contention, and laborious, low, and unprofitable…