Edmund Burke: “Uxorious and yet dissolute in his manners, he made no scruple frequently to violate the wives and daughters of his…”

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.

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…

The ceremony of cashiering kings, of which these gentlemen talk so much at their ease, can rarely, if ever, be performed without force.

Those who are servants in name, as well as in effect, do not like to be told of their situation, their duty, and their obligations.