Edmund Burke: “All rewards, all distinctions, are in other hands.”

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.

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.

But supposing they had ranked as they ought to do, and as with us they do actually, the sides of sick-beds are not the academies for forming statesmen and legislators.

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