Edmund Burke: “They are good subjects, I have no doubt; but I will not allow that any French Canadian Catholics are better men or…”

When such an unwarrantable maxim is once established, that no throne is lawful but the elective, no one act of the princes who preceded this era of fictitious election can be valid.

No experience has taught us that in any other course or method than that of an hereditary crown our liberties can be regularly perpetuated and preserved sacred as our hereditary right.

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.

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