Edmund Burke: “However, I had much rather run the risk of displeasing than of injuring them,--if I am driven to make such an option.”

A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

But supposing they had ranked as they ought to do, and as with us they do actually, the sides of sick-beds are not the academies for forming statesmen and legislators.

As he is not to obey us, but we are to obey the law in him, our Constitution has made no sort of provision towards rendering him, as a servant, in any degree responsible.

Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.