Edmund Burke: “If he has performed and if he has abstained as he ought, dismiss him honorably acquitted from your bar; otherwise…”

Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity.

Do they mean to attaint and disable backwards all the kings that have reigned before the Revolution, and consequently to stain the throne of England with the blot of a continual usurpation?

They have little regard to the obvious consequences of their doctrine, though they may see that it leaves positive authority in very few of the positive institutions of this country.

It therefore secures both an hereditary crown and an hereditary allegiance.