Edmund Burke: “Let us act like men, let us act like statesmen.”

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

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

All your sophisters cannot produce anything better adapted to preserve a rational and manly freedom than the course that we have pursued, who have chosen our nature rather than our speculations, our breasts rather than our inventions, for…

Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.