Edmund Burke: “With us, labor and frugality, the parents of riches, are spared, and wisely too.”

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

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.

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.

By adhering in this manner and on those principles to our forefathers, we are guided, not by the superstition of antiquarians, but by the spirit of philosophic analogy.