Edmund Burke: “Interest, the great guide of commerce, is not a blind one.”

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…

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

A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

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.