Edmund Burke: “Yet the preservation of such a power in such a degree of subordination, with the criminal jurisdiction, and the care of…”

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.

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

Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity.

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.