Edmund Burke: “What the grand loan, the bribery loan of 1777, may be is amongst the deepest mysteries of state.”

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

So far is it from being true that we acquired a right by the Revolution to elect our kings, that, if we had possessed it before, the English nation did at that time most solemnly renounce and abdicate it, for themselves, and for all their…

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?

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.