Edmund Burke: “These thoughts will support a mind which only exists for honor under the burden of temporary reproach.”

A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

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.

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

Who could flatter himself that these men, suddenly, and as it were by enchantment, snatched from the humblest rank of subordination, would not be intoxicated with their unprepared greatness?