Edmund Burke: “But there is a material difference between an office to be reformed and a pension taken away for demerit.”

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

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

The ceremony of cashiering kings, of which these gentlemen talk so much at their ease, can rarely, if ever, be performed without force.

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…