Edmund Burke: “In proportion as by these means the enterprising party is strengthened, the dread of a struggle is lessened.”

But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.

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

Unquestionably there was at the Revolution, in the person of King William, a small and a temporary deviation from the strict order of a regular hereditary succession; but it is against all genuine principles of jurisprudence to draw a…

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.