Edmund Burke: “That was no more than the common spleen of disappointed ambition: in the present day I fear that too many are actuated…”

A few years ago I should be ashamed to overload a matter so capable of supporting itself by the then unnecessary support of any argument; but this seditious, unconstitutional doctrine is now publicly taught, avowed, and printed.

Those who are servants in name, as well as in effect, do not like to be told of their situation, their duty, and their obligations.

All your sophisters cannot produce anything better adapted to preserve a rational and manly freedom than the course that we have pursued, who have chosen our nature rather than our speculations, our breasts rather than our inventions, for…

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