Edmund Burke: “I must carry with me that great excuse for everything, that salve for every sore, that expiation for every crime: let me…”

Governments must be abused and deranged indeed, before it can be thought of; and the prospect of the future must be as bad as the experience of the past.

It therefore secures both an hereditary crown and an hereditary allegiance.

They have little regard to the obvious consequences of their doctrine, though they may see that it leaves positive authority in very few of the positive institutions of this country.

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