Edmund Burke: “Hastings took this bribe from the Rajah of Dinagepore, he took a bribe from an infant of five years old through the…”

When such an unwarrantable maxim is once established, that no throne is lawful but the elective, no one act of the princes who preceded this era of fictitious election can be valid.

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

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

An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.