Edmund Burke: “But let him not have a confidence in himself which no human abilities can warrant.”

All your sophisters cannot produce anything better adapted to preserve a rational and manly freedom than the course that we have pursued, who have chosen our nature rather than our speculations, our breasts rather than our inventions, for…

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

Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.

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