Edmund Burke: “Lovers of monarchy, lovers of republics, must alike abhor it.”

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.

The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.

But the king of Great Britain obeys no other person; all other persons are individually, and collectively too, under him, and owe to him a legal obedience.

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.