Edmund Burke: “It is something far worse than complete outlawry, complete attainder, and universal excommunication.”

But supposing they had ranked as they ought to do, and as with us they do actually, the sides of sick-beds are not the academies for forming statesmen and legislators.

Do they mean to attaint and disable backwards all the kings that have reigned before the Revolution, and consequently to stain the throne of England with the blot of a continual usurpation?

No experience has taught us that in any other course or method than that of an hereditary crown our liberties can be regularly perpetuated and preserved sacred as our hereditary right.

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.