Edmund Burke: “If it be a panacea, we do not want it: we know the consequences of unnecessary physic.”

The ceremony of cashiering kings, of which these gentlemen talk so much at their ease, can rarely, if ever, be performed without force.

Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity.

All your sophisters cannot produce anything better adapted to preserve a rational and manly freedom than the course that we have pursued, who have chosen our nature rather than our speculations, our breasts rather than our inventions, for…

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