Edmund Burke: “Under his ancestors, the monarchy had subsisted, and even been strengthened, by the generation or support of republics.”

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

By adhering in this manner and on those principles to our forefathers, we are guided, not by the superstition of antiquarians, but by the spirit of philosophic analogy.

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.

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.