Edmund Burke: “Courts are made for the suitors, and not the suitors for the court.”

When such an unwarrantable maxim is once established, that no throne is lawful but the elective, no one act of the princes who preceded this era of fictitious election can be valid.

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

A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

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.