Edmund Burke: “The Commons will not have the melancholy unsocial glory of having acted a solitary part in a noble, but imperfect work.”

Unquestionably there was at the Revolution, in the person of King William, a small and a temporary deviation from the strict order of a regular hereditary succession; but it is against all genuine principles of jurisprudence to draw a…

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…

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

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.