Edmund Burke: “It is the return of the monarchy we are to dread, and therefore we ought to pray for the permanence of the Regicide…”

The House of Lords, for instance, is not morally competent to dissolve the House of Commons,--no, nor even to dissolve itself, nor to abdicate, if it would, its portion in the legislature of the kingdom.

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

Do they mean to attaint and disable backwards all the kings that have reigned before the Revolution, and consequently to stain the throne of England with the blot of a continual usurpation?

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