Edmund Burke: “Remember him, my friend, who in the highest degree honored and respected you; and remember that great parts are a great…”

Governments must be abused and deranged indeed, before it can be thought of; and the prospect of the future must be as bad as the experience of the past.

It therefore secures both an hereditary crown and an hereditary allegiance.

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?

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