Edmund Burke: “But nothing is more false than that despotism is the constitution of any country in Asia that we are acquainted with.”

It therefore secures both an hereditary crown and an hereditary allegiance.

But supposing they had ranked as they ought to do, and as with us they do actually, the sides of sick-beds are not the academies for forming statesmen and legislators.

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.