Edmund Burke: “Commerce, which enriches every other country in the world, was bringing Bengal to total ruin.”

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.

Who could doubt but that, at any expense to the state, of which they understood nothing, they must pursue their private interests, which they understood but too well?

Who could conceive that men who are habitually meddling, daring, subtle, active, of litigious dispositions and unquiet minds, would easily fall back into their old condition of obscure contention, and laborious, low, and unprofitable…

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