Edmund Burke: “The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancor produces an indifference which is half an approbation.”

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.

If kings who did not owe their crown to the choice of their people had no title to make laws, what will become of the statute De tallagio non concedendo? of the Petition of Right? of the act of Habeas Corpus?

By adhering in this manner and on those principles to our forefathers, we are guided, not by the superstition of antiquarians, but by the spirit of philosophic analogy.

It therefore secures both an hereditary crown and an hereditary allegiance.