Edmund Burke: “I have got more information upon a curious and interesting branch of husbandry, in one short conversation with an old…”

The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.

Governments must be abused and deranged indeed, before it can be thought of; and the prospect of the future must be as bad as the experience of the past.

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.