Edmund Burke: “You are desired to surround and circumvent it; you are desired obliquely to steal an iniquitous judgment, which you dare…”

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…

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.

By adhering in this manner and on those principles to our forefathers, we are guided, not by the superstition of antiquarians, but by the spirit of philosophic analogy.

Those who are servants in name, as well as in effect, do not like to be told of their situation, their duty, and their obligations.