Edmund Burke: “It was what I expected in a degree, because it is rare that the exercise of authority should prove satisfactory to all…”

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

Governments must be abused and deranged indeed, before it can be thought of; and the prospect of the future must be as bad as the experience of the past.

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

This idea of a liberal descent inspires us with a sense of habitual native dignity, which prevents that upstart insolence almost inevitably adhering to and disgracing those who are the first acquirers of any distinction.