Edmund Burke: “In the name of wonder, what has inspired our ministry with this hope any more than with their former expectations?”

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

Who could flatter himself that these men, suddenly, and as it were by enchantment, snatched from the humblest rank of subordination, would not be intoxicated with their unprepared greatness?

They threw a politic, well-wrought veil over every circumstance tending to weaken the rights which in the meliorated order of succession they meant to perpetuate, or which might furnish a precedent for any future departure from what they…

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