Edmund Burke: “So was Rome destroyed by the disorders of continual elections, though those of Rome were sober disorders.”

This idea of a liberal descent inspires us with a sense of habitual native dignity, which prevents that upstart insolence almost inevitably adhering to and disgracing those who are the first acquirers of any distinction.

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

An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.

Do they mean to attaint and disable backwards all the kings that have reigned before the Revolution, and consequently to stain the throne of England with the blot of a continual usurpation?