Edmund Burke: “They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to anything but power for their relief.”

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

An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.

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

A few years ago I should be ashamed to overload a matter so capable of supporting itself by the then unnecessary support of any argument; but this seditious, unconstitutional doctrine is now publicly taught, avowed, and printed.