Edmund Burke: “There ought to be a system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish.”

Ill would our ancestors at the Revolution have deserved their fame for wisdom, if they had found no security for their freedom, but in rendering their government feeble in its operations and precarious in its tenure,--if they had been able…

Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.

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?

This is the spirit of our Constitution, not only in its settled course, but in all its revolutions.