Edmund Burke: “Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.”

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.

Who could conceive that men who are habitually meddling, daring, subtle, active, of litigious dispositions and unquiet minds, would easily fall back into their old condition of obscure contention, and laborious, low, and unprofitable…

Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.

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