Edmund Burke: “It will turn out a matter of great disgrace or great glory to the whole British nation.”

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

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.

Ill would our ancestors at the Revolution have deserved their fame for wisdom, if they had found no security for their freedom, but in rendering their government feeble in its operations and precarious in its tenure,--if they had been able…

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