Edmund Burke: “Those who are bountiful to crimes will be rigid to merit and penurious to service.”

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.

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