Edmund Burke: “Because we have done one humiliating act, we ought with infinite caution to admit more acts of the same nature, lest…”

No experience has taught us that in any other course or method than that of an hereditary crown our liberties can be regularly perpetuated and preserved sacred as our hereditary right.

The speculative line of demarcation, where obedience ought to end and resistance must begin, is faint, obscure, and not easily definable.

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

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.