Edmund Burke: “This chief-justice went up there with the death-warrant of the Begums' treasures, and, for aught he knew, the…”

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

Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.

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.

But supposing they had ranked as they ought to do, and as with us they do actually, the sides of sick-beds are not the academies for forming statesmen and legislators.