Edmund Burke: “In the records of pride there does not exist so insulting a declaration.”

This idea of a liberal descent inspires us with a sense of habitual native dignity, which prevents that upstart insolence almost inevitably adhering to and disgracing those who are the first acquirers of any distinction.

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

If kings who did not owe their crown to the choice of their people had no title to make laws, what will become of the statute De tallagio non concedendo? of the Petition of Right? of the act of Habeas Corpus?

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