Edmund Burke: “To proceed in this manner, that is, to proceed with a presiding principle and a prolific energy, is with me the…”

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

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.

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.

But supposing they had ranked as they ought to do, and as with us they do actually, the sides of sick-beds are not the academies for forming statesmen and legislators.