Edmund Burke: “The Assembly, their organ, acts before them the farce of deliberation with as little decency as liberty.”

Those who are servants in name, as well as in effect, do not like to be told of their situation, their duty, and their obligations.

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

It therefore secures both an hereditary crown and an hereditary allegiance.

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…