Edmund Burke: “To make the abolition gradual, the regulations must operate as a strong discouragement.”

If kings who did not owe their crown to the choice of their people had no title to make laws, what will become of the statute De tallagio non concedendo? of the Petition of Right? of the act of Habeas Corpus?

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.

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

It therefore secures both an hereditary crown and an hereditary allegiance.