Edmund Burke: “Egbert knew how to make advantage of these divisions: fomenting them by his policy at first, and quelling them…”

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

So far is it from being true that we acquired a right by the Revolution to elect our kings, that, if we had possessed it before, the English nation did at that time most solemnly renounce and abdicate it, for themselves, and for all their…

Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.

Those who are servants in name, as well as in effect, do not like to be told of their situation, their duty, and their obligations.