Edmund Burke: “Consider next, my Lords, on the other side, the evidence of their innocence, and then ask yourselves whether any…”

The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.

All your sophisters cannot produce anything better adapted to preserve a rational and manly freedom than the course that we have pursued, who have chosen our nature rather than our speculations, our breasts rather than our inventions, for…

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

When such an unwarrantable maxim is once established, that no throne is lawful but the elective, no one act of the princes who preceded this era of fictitious election can be valid.