Edmund Burke: “The nature of things requires that the army should never act but as an instrument.”

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

An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.

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.

They look on the frame of their commonwealth, such as it stands, to be of inestimable value; and they conceive the undisturbed succession of the crown to be a pledge of the stability and perpetuity of all the other members of our…