Edmund Burke: “In addition to these high gifts, may be added, an ability to wield the weapons of sarcasm and irony, with a keenness of…”

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

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.

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.

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