Edmund Burke: “I do, to the best of my power, act so as to make myself worthy of so honorable a choice.”

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

Who could doubt but that, at any expense to the state, of which they understood nothing, they must pursue their private interests, which they understood but too well?

Their objects would be enlarged with their elevation; but their disposition, and habits, and mode of accomplishing their designs must remain the same.

As he is not to obey us, but we are to obey the law in him, our Constitution has made no sort of provision towards rendering him, as a servant, in any degree responsible.