Edmund Burke: “The noble advocate for peace has, indeed, perfectly well exploded this daring and outrageous system of pride and…”

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.

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.

This is the spirit of our Constitution, not only in its settled course, but in all its revolutions.

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