Edmund Burke: “This is a royal and commanding policy; and as long as we are true to it, we may give the law.”

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

Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.

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

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…