Edmund Burke: “So that after all, it is a moral and virtuous discretion, and not any abstract theory of right, which keeps governments…”

But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.

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.

Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.

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