Edmund Burke: “Thus they were led to increase the grievance in order to allay the clamor.”

The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.

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.

A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.