Edmund Burke: “The very attempt towards pleasing everybody discovers a temper always flashy, and often false and insincere.”

This idea of a liberal descent inspires us with a sense of habitual native dignity, which prevents that upstart insolence almost inevitably adhering to and disgracing those who are the first acquirers of any distinction.

Who could flatter himself that these men, suddenly, and as it were by enchantment, snatched from the humblest rank of subordination, would not be intoxicated with their unprepared greatness?

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

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.