Edmund Burke: “Reason, clearly and manfully delivered, has in itself a mighty force; but reason in the mouth of legal authority is, I…”

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…

It therefore secures both an hereditary crown and an hereditary allegiance.

The ceremony of cashiering kings, of which these gentlemen talk so much at their ease, can rarely, if ever, be performed without force.

A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.