Edmund Burke: “But where popular authority is absolute and unrestrained, the people have an infinitely greater, because a far better…”

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

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.

This idea of a liberal descent inspires us with a sense of habitual native dignity, which prevents that upstart insolence almost inevitably adhering to and disgracing those who are the first acquirers of any distinction.

But the king of Great Britain obeys no other person; all other persons are individually, and collectively too, under him, and owe to him a legal obedience.