Edmund Burke: “The minister had, in this conflict, wherewithal to glory in success; to be consoled in adversity; to hold high his…”

Who could flatter himself that these men, suddenly, and as it were by enchantment, snatched from the humblest rank of subordination, would not be intoxicated with their unprepared greatness?

So far is it from being true that we acquired a right by the Revolution to elect our kings, that, if we had possessed it before, the English nation did at that time most solemnly renounce and abdicate it, for themselves, and for all their…

The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.

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