Edmund Burke: “In that Constitution, I know, and exultingly I feel, both that I am free, and that I am not free dangerously to myself…”

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

Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity.

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

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