Edmund Burke: “This rigid order deadened by degrees the spirit of the English, and narrowed their conceptions.”

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

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

We procure reverence to our civil institutions on the principle upon which Nature teaches us to revere individual men: on account of their age, and on account of those from whom they are descended.

As he is not to obey us, but we are to obey the law in him, our Constitution has made no sort of provision towards rendering him, as a servant, in any degree responsible.