Edmund Burke: “The Britons, who could find no protection but in slavery, again implore the assistance of their former masters.”

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.

Unquestionably there was at the Revolution, in the person of King William, a small and a temporary deviation from the strict order of a regular hereditary succession; but it is against all genuine principles of jurisprudence to draw a…

When such an unwarrantable maxim is once established, that no throne is lawful but the elective, no one act of the princes who preceded this era of fictitious election can be valid.

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.