Edmund Burke: “Negro slaves, denunciation of attempts to excite insurrections among them in the colonies by proclamations of the…”

This idea of a liberal descent inspires us with a sense of habitual native dignity, which prevents that upstart insolence almost inevitably adhering to and disgracing those who are the first acquirers of any distinction.

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

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

If all the absurd theories of lawyers and divines were to vitiate the objects in which they are conversant, we should have no law and no religion left in the world.