Edmund Burke: “I do not hesitate to say, that that state which lays its foundations in rare and heroic virtues, will be sure to have…”

But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.

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

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

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