Edmund Burke: “The first class of labour wants nothing to equalize it; it equalizes itself.”

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

But the king of Great Britain obeys no other person; all other persons are individually, and collectively too, under him, and owe to him a legal obedience.

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

They have little regard to the obvious consequences of their doctrine, though they may see that it leaves positive authority in very few of the positive institutions of this country.