Edmund Burke: “Can your Lordships doubt, for a single instant, of the real spirit of these proceedings?”

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.

A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.

When such an unwarrantable maxim is once established, that no throne is lawful but the elective, no one act of the princes who preceded this era of fictitious election can be valid.