Edmund Burke: “We urge no crimes that were not crimes of forethought.”

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.

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

Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.