Edmund Burke: “I doubt much, very much indeed, whether France is at all ripe for liberty on any standard.”

If kings who did not owe their crown to the choice of their people had no title to make laws, what will become of the statute De tallagio non concedendo? of the Petition of Right? of the act of Habeas Corpus?

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.

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

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