Edmund Burke: “There must be some impulse besides public spirit to put private interest into motion along with it.”

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

This is the spirit of our Constitution, not only in its settled course, but in all its revolutions.

So far is it from being true that we acquired a right by the Revolution to elect our kings, that, if we had possessed it before, the English nation did at that time most solemnly renounce and abdicate it, for themselves, and for all their…

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