Edmund Burke: “We emerged from the gulf of that speculative despondency, and wore buoyed up to the highest point of practical vigor.”

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

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.

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.

By adhering in this manner and on those principles to our forefathers, we are guided, not by the superstition of antiquarians, but by the spirit of philosophic analogy.