Edmund Burke: “For this plain reason: that he might be enabled to put such sums in his own pocket as he thought fit.”

The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.

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.

Governments must be abused and deranged indeed, before it can be thought of; and the prospect of the future must be as bad as the experience of the past.

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