Edmund Burke: “These gentlemen, perhaps, do not believe a great deal in the miracles of piety; but it cannot be questioned, that they…”

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

But supposing they had ranked as they ought to do, and as with us they do actually, the sides of sick-beds are not the academies for forming statesmen and legislators.

They look upon the legal hereditary succession of their crown as among their rights, not as among their wrongs,--as a benefit, not as a grievance,--as a security for their liberty, not as a badge of servitude.

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