Edmund Burke: “Other constitutions are satisfied with making good subjects; this is a security for good governors.”

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.

Ill would our ancestors at the Revolution have deserved their fame for wisdom, if they had found no security for their freedom, but in rendering their government feeble in its operations and precarious in its tenure,--if they had been able…

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

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.