Edmund Burke: “We have no tax among us on the most necessary articles of food.”

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

By adhering in this manner and on those principles to our forefathers, we are guided, not by the superstition of antiquarians, but by the spirit of philosophic analogy.

An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.

Who could conceive that men who are habitually meddling, daring, subtle, active, of litigious dispositions and unquiet minds, would easily fall back into their old condition of obscure contention, and laborious, low, and unprofitable…