Edmund Burke: “And now, to reconcile themselves to the world, they declare this creed, bought by so much blood, to be an imposture and…”

They have little regard to the obvious consequences of their doctrine, though they may see that it leaves positive authority in very few of the positive institutions of this country.

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.

As he is not to obey us, but we are to obey the law in him, our Constitution has made no sort of provision towards rendering him, as a servant, in any degree responsible.

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