Edmund Burke: “My Lords, no example of antiquity, nothing in the modern world, nothing in the range of human imagination, can supply us…”

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

It therefore secures both an hereditary crown and an hereditary allegiance.

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 people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.