Edmund Burke: “They never depart an iota from the authentic formulas of tyranny and usurpation.”

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.

An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.

If kings who did not owe their crown to the choice of their people had no title to make laws, what will become of the statute De tallagio non concedendo? of the Petition of Right? of the act of Habeas Corpus?