Edmund Burke: “But when the reason of old establishments is gone, it is absurd to preserve nothing but the burden of them.”

They look on the frame of their commonwealth, such as it stands, to be of inestimable value; and they conceive the undisturbed succession of the crown to be a pledge of the stability and perpetuity of all the other members of our…

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.

The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.

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?