Edmund Burke: “But the rule of caste has, with them, given one power more to fortune than the manners of any other nation were ever…”

Ill would our ancestors at the Revolution have deserved their fame for wisdom, if they had found no security for their freedom, but in rendering their government feeble in its operations and precarious in its tenure,--if they had been able…

So far is it from being true that we acquired a right by the Revolution to elect our kings, that, if we had possessed it before, the English nation did at that time most solemnly renounce and abdicate it, for themselves, and for all their…

Their objects would be enlarged with their elevation; but their disposition, and habits, and mode of accomplishing their designs must remain the same.

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