Edmund Burke: “Was she a person so very ferocious and cruel, as, by the example of her death, to frighten us into common humanity?”

The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.

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

Ill would our ancestors at the Revolution have deserved their fame for wisdom, if they had found no security for their freedom, but in rendering their government feeble in its operations and precarious in its tenure,--if they had been able…

They look upon the legal hereditary succession of their crown as among their rights, not as among their wrongs,--as a benefit, not as a grievance,--as a security for their liberty, not as a badge of servitude.