Edmund Burke: “They will sort out the good from the evil, which is mixed in mortal institutions as it is in mortal men.”

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

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.

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.

They look upon the legal hereditary succession of their crown as among their rights, not as among their wrongs,--as a benefit, not as a grievance,--as a security for their liberty, not as a badge of servitude.