Edmund Burke: “But let them not break prison to burst like a Levanter, to sweep the earth with their hurricane, and to break up the…”

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

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.

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?

They look upon the legal hereditary succession of their crown as among their rights, not as among their wrongs,--as a benefit, not as a grievance,--as a security for their liberty, not as a badge of servitude.