Edmund Burke: “I would have toleration a part of establishment, as a principle favorable to Christianity, and as a part of…”

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…

This is the spirit of our Constitution, not only in its settled course, but in all its revolutions.

They look on the frame of their commonwealth, such as it stands, to be of inestimable value; and they conceive the undisturbed succession of the crown to be a pledge of the stability and perpetuity of all the other members of our…

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