Edmund Burke: “It is not said, that, in the long period of my service, I have, in a single instance, sacrificed the slightest of your…”

But the king of Great Britain obeys no other person; all other persons are individually, and collectively too, under him, and owe to him a legal obedience.

They look upon the legal hereditary succession of their crown as among their rights, not as among their wrongs,--as a benefit, not as a grievance,--as a security for their liberty, not as a badge of servitude.

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

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.