Edmund Burke: “Let any of these facts (now become presumptions of guilt) be proved against him, and the bare suspicion of the crown…”

This is the spirit of our Constitution, not only in its settled course, but in all its revolutions.

But the king of Great Britain obeys no other person; all other persons are individually, and collectively too, under him, and owe to him a legal obedience.

They look upon the legal hereditary succession of their crown as among their rights, not as among their wrongs,--as a benefit, not as a grievance,--as a security for their liberty, not as a badge of servitude.

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