Edmund Burke: “Slaves I found the people: slaves they are,--they are so by their constitution; and if they are, I did not make it for…”

Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.

The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.

They look on the frame of their commonwealth, such as it stands, to be of inestimable value; and they conceive the undisturbed succession of the crown to be a pledge of the stability and perpetuity of all the other members of our…

All your sophisters cannot produce anything better adapted to preserve a rational and manly freedom than the course that we have pursued, who have chosen our nature rather than our speculations, our breasts rather than our inventions, for…