Edmund Burke: “Is this resistance, so excited, so provoked, a plea for irreconcilable vengeance?”

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.

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.

They look upon the legal hereditary succession of their crown as among their rights, not as among their wrongs,--as a benefit, not as a grievance,--as a security for their liberty, not as a badge of servitude.

An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.