Edmund Burke: “I will read your Lordships the letter, that you may not only know, but feel, the iniquity of this business.”

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

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.

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

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.