Edmund Burke: “It will take its perpetual tenor, it will receive its final impression, from the stamp of this very hour.”

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

No experience has taught us that in any other course or method than that of an hereditary crown our liberties can be regularly perpetuated and preserved sacred as our hereditary right.

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.

But the king of Great Britain obeys no other person; all other persons are individually, and collectively too, under him, and owe to him a legal obedience.