Edmund Burke: “To make everything the reverse of what they have seen is quite as easy as to destroy.”

The speculative line of demarcation, where obedience ought to end and resistance must begin, is faint, obscure, and not easily definable.

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

But the course of succession is the healthy habit of the British Constitution.

Ill would our ancestors at the Revolution have deserved their fame for wisdom, if they had found no security for their freedom, but in rendering their government feeble in its operations and precarious in its tenure,--if they had been able…