Edmund Burke: “We here confidently protest against this mode of justification, and we maintain that his pretending to follow these…”

But the course of succession is the healthy habit of the British Constitution.

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.

All your sophisters cannot produce anything better adapted to preserve a rational and manly freedom than the course that we have pursued, who have chosen our nature rather than our speculations, our breasts rather than our inventions, for…