Edmund Burke: “Virtues have their place; and out of their place they hardly deserve the name,--they pass into the neighboring vice.”

No experience has taught us that in any other course or method than that of an hereditary crown our liberties can be regularly perpetuated and preserved sacred as our hereditary right.

But the king of Great Britain obeys no other person; all other persons are individually, and collectively too, under him, and owe to him a legal obedience.

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

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.