Edmund Burke: “To-day the question is this: Are we to make the best of this situation, which we cannot alter?”

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.

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.

Do they mean to attaint and disable backwards all the kings that have reigned before the Revolution, and consequently to stain the throne of England with the blot of a continual usurpation?