Edmund Burke: “Remember, too, that mistaken or misapplied virtues, if they are not as pernicious as vice, frustrate at least their own…”

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?

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.

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

The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.