Edmund Burke: “By this simple, obvious operation, the Company would be relieved and the debt paid, without the charge of a shilling…”

As he is not to obey us, but we are to obey the law in him, our Constitution has made no sort of provision towards rendering him, as a servant, in any degree responsible.

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

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

Who could flatter himself that these men, suddenly, and as it were by enchantment, snatched from the humblest rank of subordination, would not be intoxicated with their unprepared greatness?