Edmund Burke: “Does any one who hears me approve this scheme of things, or think there is common justice, common sense, or common…”

Governments must be abused and deranged indeed, before it can be thought of; and the prospect of the future must be as bad as the experience of the past.

But supposing they had ranked as they ought to do, and as with us they do actually, the sides of sick-beds are not the academies for forming statesmen and legislators.

A few years ago I should be ashamed to overload a matter so capable of supporting itself by the then unnecessary support of any argument; but this seditious, unconstitutional doctrine is now publicly taught, avowed, and printed.

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