Edmund Burke: “You would not secure men from tyranny and sedition by rooting out of the mind the principles to which these fraudulent…”

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

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

An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.

We procure reverence to our civil institutions on the principle upon which Nature teaches us to revere individual men: on account of their age, and on account of those from whom they are descended.