Edmund Burke: “Whatever his inward intentions may have been, did Louis the Fourteenth ever make a declaration that the true bounds of…”

The ceremony of cashiering kings, of which these gentlemen talk so much at their ease, can rarely, if ever, be performed without force.

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.

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

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