Edmund Burke: “It was not and could not be for any other purpose; and I defy the wit of man to find out any other.”

If all the absurd theories of lawyers and divines were to vitiate the objects in which they are conversant, we should have no law and no religion left in the world.

The ceremony of cashiering kings, of which these gentlemen talk so much at their ease, can rarely, if ever, be performed without force.

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.