Edmund Burke: “We were then, and at bottom ever since, of the same opinion on the justice and policy of the whole and of every part of…”

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

Their objects would be enlarged with their elevation; but their disposition, and habits, and mode of accomplishing their designs must remain the same.

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

They have little regard to the obvious consequences of their doctrine, though they may see that it leaves positive authority in very few of the positive institutions of this country.