Edmund Burke: “With you a man can neither earn nor buy his dinner without a speculation.”

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.

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

Those who are servants in name, as well as in effect, do not like to be told of their situation, their duty, and their obligations.

Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.