Edmund Burke: “For dignity and property in this country, Esto perpetua shall be my prayer this day, and the last prayer of my life.”

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

Who could flatter himself that these men, suddenly, and as it were by enchantment, snatched from the humblest rank of subordination, would not be intoxicated with their unprepared greatness?

This is the spirit of our Constitution, not only in its settled course, but in all its revolutions.

Do they mean to attaint and disable backwards all the kings that have reigned before the Revolution, and consequently to stain the throne of England with the blot of a continual usurpation?