Edmund Burke: “In this sense the restraints on men, as well as their liberties, are to be reckoned among their rights.”

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

Do they mean to attaint and disable backwards all the kings that have reigned before the Revolution, and consequently to stain the throne of England with the blot of a continual usurpation?

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.

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.