Edmund Burke: “I hold them to have been, what the world thought them, men of deep understanding, open sincerity, and clear honor.”

Those who are servants in name, as well as in effect, do not like to be told of their situation, their duty, and their obligations.

Who could doubt but that, at any expense to the state, of which they understood nothing, they must pursue their private interests, which they understood but too well?

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.

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