Edmund Burke: “It would be a means of squaring the occasional decrees of a democracy to some principles of general jurisprudence.”

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

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

Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity.

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.