Edmund Burke: “No tyrant ever imposed so severe a tax upon his people as the affection of the people of England, already exhausted…”

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

So far is it from being true that we acquired a right by the Revolution to elect our kings, that, if we had possessed it before, the English nation did at that time most solemnly renounce and abdicate it, for themselves, and for all their…

But the course of succession is the healthy habit of the British Constitution.

An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.