Edmund Burke: “And I loved men of courage and valor; for God Almighty loveth the brave.”

But the course of succession is the healthy habit of the British Constitution.

Do they mean to attaint and disable backwards all the kings that have reigned before the Revolution, and consequently to stain the throne of England with the blot of a continual usurpation?

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

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