Edmund Burke: “All other nations we ought to have commanded not to trouble her sacred throes, whilst in labor to bring into an happy…”

A few years ago I should be ashamed to overload a matter so capable of supporting itself by the then unnecessary support of any argument; but this seditious, unconstitutional doctrine is now publicly taught, avowed, and printed.

But supposing they had ranked as they ought to do, and as with us they do actually, the sides of sick-beds are not the academies for forming statesmen and legislators.

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…

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