Edmund Burke: “He goes the full length of that position, and turns his private peculation into a public good.”

A few years ago I should be ashamed to overload a matter so capable of supporting itself by the then unnecessary support of any argument; but this seditious, unconstitutional doctrine is now publicly taught, avowed, and printed.

If all the absurd theories of lawyers and divines were to vitiate the objects in which they are conversant, we should have no law and no religion left in the world.

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

But the course of succession is the healthy habit of the British Constitution.