The means of the subsistence of mankind should be as immutable as the laws of Nature, let power and dominion take what course they may.--Observe what has been done with regard to this important concern.
Burke argues for the stability of human sustenance against the whims of power.
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An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.
The speculative line of demarcation, where obedience ought to end and resistance must begin, is faint, obscure, and not easily definable.
Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.
This is the spirit of our Constitution, not only in its settled course, but in all its revolutions.
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