Edmund Burke: “Labor is a commodity like every other, and rises or falls according to the demand.”

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

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.

No experience has taught us that in any other course or method than that of an hereditary crown our liberties can be regularly perpetuated and preserved sacred as our hereditary right.

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