Edmund Burke: “Have we not bound it on posterity forever, though our abettors have declared that no one generation is competent to bind…”

We procure reverence to our civil institutions on the principle upon which Nature teaches us to revere individual men: on account of their age, and on account of those from whom they are descended.

So far is it from being true that we acquired a right by the Revolution to elect our kings, that, if we had possessed it before, the English nation did at that time most solemnly renounce and abdicate it, for themselves, and for all their…

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

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