Edmund Burke: “The opportunity of acquiring immense fortunes was too inviting to be neglected, and the temptation too powerful to be…”

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

No experience has taught us that in any other course or method than that of an hereditary crown our liberties can be regularly perpetuated and preserved sacred as our hereditary right.

Who could doubt but that, at any expense to the state, of which they understood nothing, they must pursue their private interests, which they understood but too well?

The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.