Edmund Burke: “These are the demands (quite natural demands) of those who are ready to follow the standard of monarchy.”

No experience has taught us that in any other course or method than that of an hereditary crown our liberties can be regularly perpetuated and preserved sacred as our hereditary right.

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.

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

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.