Edmund Burke: “They who massacre, plunder, and expel the body of the proprietary are murderers and robbers.”

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.

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.