Edmund Burke: “We have in the present grand alliance all modes of government, as well as all modes of religion.”

They have little regard to the obvious consequences of their doctrine, though they may see that it leaves positive authority in very few of the positive institutions of this country.

But the king of Great Britain obeys no other person; all other persons are individually, and collectively too, under him, and owe to him a legal obedience.

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

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