Edmund Burke: “The arguments of tyranny are as contemptible as its force is dreadful.”

Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.

So far is it from being true that we acquired a right by the Revolution to elect our kings, that, if we had possessed it before, the English nation did at that time most solemnly renounce and abdicate it, for themselves, and for all their…

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

The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.