Edmund Burke: “I shall never praise confiscations or counter-confiscations as long as I live.”

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

Ill would our ancestors at the Revolution have deserved their fame for wisdom, if they had found no security for their freedom, but in rendering their government feeble in its operations and precarious in its tenure,--if they had been able…

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 the course of succession is the healthy habit of the British Constitution.