Edmund Burke: “It shall be safely lodged in the sanctuary of my heart,--never, never to be torn from thence, but with those holds that…”

Ill would our ancestors at the Revolution have deserved their fame for wisdom, if they had found no security for their freedom, but in rendering their government feeble in its operations and precarious in its tenure,--if they had been able…

When such an unwarrantable maxim is once established, that no throne is lawful but the elective, no one act of the princes who preceded this era of fictitious election can be valid.

They threw a politic, well-wrought veil over every circumstance tending to weaken the rights which in the meliorated order of succession they meant to perpetuate, or which might furnish a precedent for any future departure from what they…

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