Edmund Burke: “I did not dare to rub off a particle of the venerable rust that rather adorns and preserves than destroys the metal.”

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.

Do they mean to attaint and disable backwards all the kings that have reigned before the Revolution, and consequently to stain the throne of England with the blot of a continual usurpation?

If kings who did not owe their crown to the choice of their people had no title to make laws, what will become of the statute De tallagio non concedendo? of the Petition of Right? of the act of Habeas Corpus?

An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.