Edmund Burke: “The Habeas Corpus Act supposes, contrary to the genius of most other laws, that the lawful magistrate may see particular…”

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

They threw a politic, well-wrought veil over every circumstance tending to weaken the rights which in the meliorated order of succession they meant to perpetuate, or which might furnish a precedent for any future departure from what they…

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

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.