Edmund Burke: “This added exceedingly to their hatred and contempt of their monarchy.”

An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.

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…

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

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