Edmund Burke: “If the transaction was fair and honest, every native must have been desirous of making merit with the great governing…”

Ill would our ancestors at the Revolution have deserved their fame for wisdom, if they had found no security for their freedom, but in rendering their government feeble in its operations and precarious in its tenure,--if they had been able…

Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity.

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.

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