Edmund Burke: “Had it stood here, the transaction would have been of the most audacious strain of fraud and usury perhaps ever before…”

The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.

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

Who could conceive that men who are habitually meddling, daring, subtle, active, of litigious dispositions and unquiet minds, would easily fall back into their old condition of obscure contention, and laborious, low, and unprofitable…

The ceremony of cashiering kings, of which these gentlemen talk so much at their ease, can rarely, if ever, be performed without force.