Edmund Burke: “It will be a folly scarcely deserving of pity, and too mischievous for contempt, to think of restraining it in any other…”

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.

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

But the king of Great Britain obeys no other person; all other persons are individually, and collectively too, under him, and owe to him a legal obedience.

An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.