Edmund Burke: “France is considered as merely a foreign power, and the seditious English only as a domestic faction.”

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

Who could doubt but that, at any expense to the state, of which they understood nothing, they must pursue their private interests, which they understood but too well?

The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.

Their objects would be enlarged with their elevation; but their disposition, and habits, and mode of accomplishing their designs must remain the same.