Edmund Burke: “No factory will be settled in France, that will not become a club of complete French Jacobins.”

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

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…

The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.

This is the spirit of our Constitution, not only in its settled course, but in all its revolutions.