Edmund Burke: “Provisions for security are not to be received from those who think that there is no danger.”

As he is not to obey us, but we are to obey the law in him, our Constitution has made no sort of provision towards rendering him, as a servant, in any degree responsible.

Who could doubt but that, at any expense to the state, of which they understood nothing, they must pursue their private interests, which they understood but too well?

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

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