Edmund Burke: “He went to look for plunder; but he was himself plundered, the country was ravaged, and the prey escaped.”

But the course of succession is the healthy habit of the British Constitution.

They threw a politic, well-wrought veil over every circumstance tending to weaken the rights which in the meliorated order of succession they meant to perpetuate, or which might furnish a precedent for any future departure from what they…

Ill would our ancestors at the Revolution have deserved their fame for wisdom, if they had found no security for their freedom, but in rendering their government feeble in its operations and precarious in its tenure,--if they had been able…

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