Edmund Burke: “What were the crimes of those crowds of matrons and virgins of condition, whom they mas sacred, with their juries of…”

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

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

Their objects would be enlarged with their elevation; but their disposition, and habits, and mode of accomplishing their designs must remain the same.

All your sophisters cannot produce anything better adapted to preserve a rational and manly freedom than the course that we have pursued, who have chosen our nature rather than our speculations, our breasts rather than our inventions, for…