Edmund Burke: “The seeds are sown almost everywhere, chiefly by newspaper circulations, infinitely more efficacious and extensive than…”

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.

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

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

Governments must be abused and deranged indeed, before it can be thought of; and the prospect of the future must be as bad as the experience of the past.