Edmund Burke: “At once to preserve and to reform is quite another thing.”

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.

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

Those who are servants in name, as well as in effect, do not like to be told of their situation, their duty, and their obligations.

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.