Edmund Burke: “But it would be healing; it would be satisfactory and protecting.”

Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity.

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

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

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.