Edmund Burke: “In the present case, to suppose its existence is as absurd as it is cruel and oppressive.”

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

If all the absurd theories of lawyers and divines were to vitiate the objects in which they are conversant, we should have no law and no religion left in the world.

But the king of Great Britain obeys no other person; all other persons are individually, and collectively too, under him, and owe to him a legal obedience.

But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.