Edmund Burke: “Their more essential interests, and those of the people, were involved in it; it pervaded and poisoned the whole mass of…”

A few years ago I should be ashamed to overload a matter so capable of supporting itself by the then unnecessary support of any argument; but this seditious, unconstitutional doctrine is now publicly taught, avowed, and printed.

But the king of Great Britain obeys no other person; all other persons are individually, and collectively too, under him, and owe to him a legal obedience.

They look upon the legal hereditary succession of their crown as among their rights, not as among their wrongs,--as a benefit, not as a grievance,--as a security for their liberty, not as a badge of servitude.

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