Edmund Burke: “We are sure that we must have your Majesty's heart along with us, when we declare in favor of mixing something…”

Ill would our ancestors at the Revolution have deserved their fame for wisdom, if they had found no security for their freedom, but in rendering their government feeble in its operations and precarious in its tenure,--if they had been able…

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

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

No experience has taught us that in any other course or method than that of an hereditary crown our liberties can be regularly perpetuated and preserved sacred as our hereditary right.