Edmund Burke: “But be it that this is virtue; be it that there is virtue in this well-selected rigor: yet all virtues are not equally…”

But the king of Great Britain obeys no other person; all other persons are individually, and collectively too, under him, and owe to him a legal obedience.

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

But supposing they had ranked as they ought to do, and as with us they do actually, the sides of sick-beds are not the academies for forming statesmen and legislators.

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.