Edmund Burke: “The great and justest boast of this monastery is the Venerable Beda, who was educated and spent his whole life there.”

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

But supposing they had ranked as they ought to do, and as with us they do actually, the sides of sick-beds are not the academies for forming statesmen and legislators.

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

The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.