Edmund Burke: “Thinking men will scarcely regard the penal dissolution of a Parliament as a very trifling concern.”

They have little regard to the obvious consequences of their doctrine, though they may see that it leaves positive authority in very few of the positive institutions of this country.

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

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

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?