Edmund Burke: “We see in that invisible authority, what we all feel in reality and life, the beneficent powers and protecting justice…”

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.

All your sophisters cannot produce anything better adapted to preserve a rational and manly freedom than the course that we have pursued, who have chosen our nature rather than our speculations, our breasts rather than our inventions, for…

We procure reverence to our civil institutions on the principle upon which Nature teaches us to revere individual men: on account of their age, and on account of those from whom they are descended.

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