Edmund Burke: “Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one…”

We procure reverence to our civil institutions on the principle upon which Nature teaches us to revere individual men: on account of their age, and on account of those from whom they are descended.

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

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

Their objects would be enlarged with their elevation; but their disposition, and habits, and mode of accomplishing their designs must remain the same.