Edmund Burke: “Proof must be accumulated upon proof, to silence them.”

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.

They threw a politic, well-wrought veil over every circumstance tending to weaken the rights which in the meliorated order of succession they meant to perpetuate, or which might furnish a precedent for any future departure from what they…

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

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.