Edmund Burke: “I am a true Englishman, I felt to the quick for the disgrace of England.”

Who could flatter himself that these men, suddenly, and as it were by enchantment, snatched from the humblest rank of subordination, would not be intoxicated with their unprepared greatness?

When such an unwarrantable maxim is once established, that no throne is lawful but the elective, no one act of the princes who preceded this era of fictitious election can be valid.

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.

But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.