Edmund Burke: “They have been taught that the circumstance of the Gospel's being preached to the poor was one of the great tests of its…”

But supposing they had ranked as they ought to do, and as with us they do actually, the sides of sick-beds are not the academies for forming statesmen and legislators.

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

Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.

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.