Edmund Burke: “Strange ground to expect applause!--a discovery which was no discovery at all!”

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

Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.

No experience has taught us that in any other course or method than that of an hereditary crown our liberties can be regularly perpetuated and preserved sacred as our hereditary right.

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.