Edmund Burke: “It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free.”

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.

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.

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

The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.