Edmund Burke: “They see with horror and alarm that enormous and shameless act of proscription.”

This is the spirit of our Constitution, not only in its settled course, but in all its revolutions.

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

But the course of succession is the healthy habit of the British Constitution.

Who could flatter himself that these men, suddenly, and as it were by enchantment, snatched from the humblest rank of subordination, would not be intoxicated with their unprepared greatness?