Edmund Burke: “But its final reduction and perfect settlement were reserved for Julius Agricola, a man by whom, it was a happiness for…”

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

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

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.

They have little regard to the obvious consequences of their doctrine, though they may see that it leaves positive authority in very few of the positive institutions of this country.