Edmund Burke: “In it there is no glory to God on high, and not the least tincture of good-will to man.”

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

Unquestionably there was at the Revolution, in the person of King William, a small and a temporary deviation from the strict order of a regular hereditary succession; but it is against all genuine principles of jurisprudence to draw a…

This idea of a liberal descent inspires us with a sense of habitual native dignity, which prevents that upstart insolence almost inevitably adhering to and disgracing those who are the first acquirers of any distinction.

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