Edmund Burke: “But let their fears, or their hopes, or their desires, be what they will, they should recollect that they who would make…”

So far is it from being true that we acquired a right by the Revolution to elect our kings, that, if we had possessed it before, the English nation did at that time most solemnly renounce and abdicate it, for themselves, and for all their…

Who could doubt but that, at any expense to the state, of which they understood nothing, they must pursue their private interests, which they understood but too well?

Those who are servants in name, as well as in effect, do not like to be told of their situation, their duty, and their obligations.

The speculative line of demarcation, where obedience ought to end and resistance must begin, is faint, obscure, and not easily definable.