Edmund Burke: “On the contrary, we highly revere the principles on which you act, though we lament some of their effects.”

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

They have little regard to the obvious consequences of their doctrine, though they may see that it leaves positive authority in very few of the positive institutions of this country.

If all the absurd theories of lawyers and divines were to vitiate the objects in which they are conversant, we should have no law and no religion left in the world.

It therefore secures both an hereditary crown and an hereditary allegiance.