Edmund Burke: “It did not appear to them that virtue and heroism ought to be purchased by millions of rix-dollars.”

So far is it from being true that we acquired a right by the Revolution to elect our kings, that, if we had possessed it before, the English nation did at that time most solemnly renounce and abdicate it, for themselves, and for all their…

A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

They look upon the legal hereditary succession of their crown as among their rights, not as among their wrongs,--as a benefit, not as a grievance,--as a security for their liberty, not as a badge of servitude.

The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.