Edmund Burke: “Unquestionably, there is a good deal of difference between the value of one man's labor and that of another, from…”

Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.

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

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.

A few years ago I should be ashamed to overload a matter so capable of supporting itself by the then unnecessary support of any argument; but this seditious, unconstitutional doctrine is now publicly taught, avowed, and printed.