Edmund Burke: “Every part of their own policy comes round, and strikes at their own power and their own lives.”

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

We procure reverence to our civil institutions on the principle upon which Nature teaches us to revere individual men: on account of their age, and on account of those from whom they are descended.

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…

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