Edmund Burke: “Nor can any sovereign have it by succession; for no man can succeed to fraud, rapine, and violence.”

But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.

They threw a politic, well-wrought veil over every circumstance tending to weaken the rights which in the meliorated order of succession they meant to perpetuate, or which might furnish a precedent for any future departure from what they…

But supposing they had ranked as they ought to do, and as with us they do actually, the sides of sick-beds are not the academies for forming statesmen and legislators.

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.