Edmund Burke: “God forbid, that, on a worthy occasion, authority should want the means of force, or the disposition to use it!”

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

Their objects would be enlarged with their elevation; but their disposition, and habits, and mode of accomplishing their designs must remain the same.

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

As he is not to obey us, but we are to obey the law in him, our Constitution has made no sort of provision towards rendering him, as a servant, in any degree responsible.