Edmund Burke: “The power, however, of the House of Commons, when least diminished, is as a drop of water in the ocean, compared to that…”

The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.

They look upon the legal hereditary succession of their crown as among their rights, not as among their wrongs,--as a benefit, not as a grievance,--as a security for their liberty, not as a badge of servitude.

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

This idea of a liberal descent inspires us with a sense of habitual native dignity, which prevents that upstart insolence almost inevitably adhering to and disgracing those who are the first acquirers of any distinction.