Edmund Burke: “Several kings resigned their crowns to devote themselves to religious contemplation in monasteries,--more at that time…”

Those who are servants in name, as well as in effect, do not like to be told of their situation, their duty, and their obligations.

If kings who did not owe their crown to the choice of their people had no title to make laws, what will become of the statute De tallagio non concedendo? of the Petition of Right? of the act of Habeas Corpus?

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.

By adhering in this manner and on those principles to our forefathers, we are guided, not by the superstition of antiquarians, but by the spirit of philosophic analogy.