Edmund Burke: “They were quite certain that no complaints of the natives would be heard on this side of the water with any other…”

Who could conceive that men who are habitually meddling, daring, subtle, active, of litigious dispositions and unquiet minds, would easily fall back into their old condition of obscure contention, and laborious, low, and unprofitable…

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.

But the king of Great Britain obeys no other person; all other persons are individually, and collectively too, under him, and owe to him a legal obedience.

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