Edmund Burke: “Its greatest favourers love it better in the abstract than in the substance.”

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

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?

Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.

If all the absurd theories of lawyers and divines were to vitiate the objects in which they are conversant, we should have no law and no religion left in the world.