Edmund Burke: “No mechanical means could be devised in favor of this incredible system of wickedness and vice, that has not been…”

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

Those who are servants in name, as well as in effect, do not like to be told of their situation, their duty, and their obligations.

Who could doubt but that, at any expense to the state, of which they understood nothing, they must pursue their private interests, which they understood but too well?

The House of Lords, for instance, is not morally competent to dissolve the House of Commons,--no, nor even to dissolve itself, nor to abdicate, if it would, its portion in the legislature of the kingdom.