Edmund Burke: “You are going to have one half of the globe hid even from the common liberal curiosity of an English gentleman.”

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.

Who could conceive that men who are habitually meddling, daring, subtle, active, of litigious dispositions and unquiet minds, would easily fall back into their old condition of obscure contention, and laborious, low, and unprofitable…

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