• Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite.

    Edmund Burke: Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite.
    "Reflections on the Revolution in France". Political pamphlet by Edmund Burke, November 1790.