Edmund Burke: “But amongst men so disbanded, there can be no such thing as majority or minority; or power in any one person to bind…”

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.

Ill would our ancestors at the Revolution have deserved their fame for wisdom, if they had found no security for their freedom, but in rendering their government feeble in its operations and precarious in its tenure,--if they had been able…

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.