Edmund Burke: “Who will answer for the courage of a House of Commons to arm the crown with the extraordinary powers that it may demand?”

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.

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.

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.

But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.