Edmund Burke: “A certain intemperance of intellect is the disease of the time, and the source of all its other diseases.”

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

The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.

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.

But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.