Edmund Burke: “The unhappy Louis the Sixteenth was a man of the best intentions that probably ever reigned.”

But the king of Great Britain obeys no other person; all other persons are individually, and collectively too, under him, and owe to him a legal obedience.

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…

As he is not to obey us, but we are to obey the law in him, our Constitution has made no sort of provision towards rendering him, as a servant, in any degree responsible.