Edmund Burke: “It is to perpetuate the abuses which are subverting the fabric of your empire, that the motion is opposed.”

So far is it from being true that we acquired a right by the Revolution to elect our kings, that, if we had possessed it before, the English nation did at that time most solemnly renounce and abdicate it, for themselves, and for all their…

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

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.

The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.