Edmund Burke: “Those who are servants in name, as well as in effect, do not like to be told of their situation, their duty, and their…”

Who could doubt but that, at any expense to the state, of which they understood nothing, they must pursue their private interests, which they understood but too well?

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

Do they mean to attaint and disable backwards all the kings that have reigned before the Revolution, and consequently to stain the throne of England with the blot of a continual usurpation?

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.