Edmund Burke: “They may rise in ferocious, ill-directed tumults,--but they can only disgrace themselves and signalize the triumph of…”

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.

Do they mean to attaint and disable backwards all the kings that have reigned before the Revolution, and consequently to stain the throne of England with the blot of a continual usurpation?

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.

But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.