Edmund Burke: “We therefore contended, that the demand was not made for the service of the state, but for the oppression of the…”

Governments must be abused and deranged indeed, before it can be thought of; and the prospect of the future must be as bad as the experience of the past.

We procure reverence to our civil institutions on the principle upon which Nature teaches us to revere individual men: on account of their age, and on account of those from whom they are descended.

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.