Edmund Burke: “It touched him in every way in which shame and sympathy can affect a man.”

The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.

Governments must be abused and deranged indeed, before it can be thought of; and the prospect of the future must be as bad as the experience of the past.

But the king of Great Britain obeys no other person; all other persons are individually, and collectively too, under him, and owe to him a legal obedience.

But the course of succession is the healthy habit of the British Constitution.