Edmund Burke: “They were invented for this one good purpose, that what was not just should not be convenient.”

Who could conceive that men who are habitually meddling, daring, subtle, active, of litigious dispositions and unquiet minds, would easily fall back into their old condition of obscure contention, and laborious, low, and unprofitable…

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

Do they mean to attaint and disable backwards all the kings that have reigned before the Revolution, and consequently to stain the throne of England with the blot of a continual usurpation?

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