Edmund Burke: “Breach of duty abroad will always go hand in hand with neglect of it at home.”

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.

No experience has taught us that in any other course or method than that of an hereditary crown our liberties can be regularly perpetuated and preserved sacred as our hereditary right.

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

But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.