Edmund Burke: “Of this consolation whoever deprives them deadens their industry, and strikes at the root of all acquisition as of all…”

An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.

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

Who could conceive that men who are habitually meddling, daring, subtle, active, of litigious dispositions and unquiet minds, would easily fall back into their old condition of obscure contention, and laborious, low, and unprofitable…

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.