Edmund Burke: “A tiller of land to pay six hundred per cent to discharge the demands of government!”

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.

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

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

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