Edmund Burke: “Whether this be owing to an obstinate perseverance in error, or to a religious adherence to what appears to me truth and…”

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 king of Great Britain obeys no other person; all other persons are individually, and collectively too, under him, and owe to him a legal obedience.

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

A few years ago I should be ashamed to overload a matter so capable of supporting itself by the then unnecessary support of any argument; but this seditious, unconstitutional doctrine is now publicly taught, avowed, and printed.