Edmund Burke: “I never heard a more elaborate, more able, more convincing, and more shameful speech.”

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

All your sophisters cannot produce anything better adapted to preserve a rational and manly freedom than the course that we have pursued, who have chosen our nature rather than our speculations, our breasts rather than our inventions, for…

But the course of succession is the healthy habit of the British Constitution.

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.