Edmund Burke: “The pretended rights of these theorists are all extremes; and in proportion as they are metaphysically true, they are…”

Their objects would be enlarged with their elevation; but their disposition, and habits, and mode of accomplishing their designs must remain the same.

Who could flatter himself that these men, suddenly, and as it were by enchantment, snatched from the humblest rank of subordination, would not be intoxicated with their unprepared greatness?

If kings who did not owe their crown to the choice of their people had no title to make laws, what will become of the statute De tallagio non concedendo? of the Petition of Right? of the act of Habeas Corpus?

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