Edmund Burke: “These suppositions become the strongest reasons with me to evince the necessity of some clear and positive settlement of…”

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

The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.

So far is it from being true that we acquired a right by the Revolution to elect our kings, that, if we had possessed it before, the English nation did at that time most solemnly renounce and abdicate it, for themselves, and for all their…

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.