Edmund Burke: “We first throw away the tales along with the rattles of our nurses; those of the priest keep their hold a little longer…”

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.

If kings who did not owe their crown to the choice of their people had no title to make laws, what will become of the statute De tallagio non concedendo? of the Petition of Right? of the act of Habeas Corpus?

Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity.

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.