Edmund Burke: “I have no sword; and if I had, in this case, most certainly, I would not use it as a makeweight in political reasoning.”

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

They have little regard to the obvious consequences of their doctrine, though they may see that it leaves positive authority in very few of the positive institutions of this country.

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.

But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.