Edmund Burke: “Having found the advantage of assassination in the formation of their tyranny, it is the grand resource in which they…”

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

The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.

It therefore secures both an hereditary crown and an hereditary allegiance.

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