Edmund Burke: “I felt this as one of those few moments in which decorum yields to an higher duty.”

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

This idea of a liberal descent inspires us with a sense of habitual native dignity, which prevents that upstart insolence almost inevitably adhering to and disgracing those who are the first acquirers of any distinction.

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

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