Edmund Burke: “Nothing can be directed above the mark that we must aim at: everything below it is absolutely thrown away.”

Who could flatter himself that these men, suddenly, and as it were by enchantment, snatched from the humblest rank of subordination, would not be intoxicated with their unprepared greatness?

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

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.

They have little regard to the obvious consequences of their doctrine, though they may see that it leaves positive authority in very few of the positive institutions of this country.