Edmund Burke: “On the principle of this argument, the more mischiefs we suffer from any administration, the more our trust in it is to…”

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

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

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

Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity.