Edmund Burke: “What has happened in France teaches us, with many other things, that there are more causes than have commonly been taken…”

Who could conceive that men who are habitually meddling, daring, subtle, active, of litigious dispositions and unquiet minds, would easily fall back into their old condition of obscure contention, and laborious, low, and unprofitable…

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

If kings who did not owe their crown to the choice of their people had no title to make laws, what will become of the statute De tallagio non concedendo? of the Petition of Right? of the act of Habeas Corpus?

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