Edmund Burke: “From villany no good can arise, but in the example of its fate.”

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

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…

Unquestionably there was at the Revolution, in the person of King William, a small and a temporary deviation from the strict order of a regular hereditary succession; but it is against all genuine principles of jurisprudence to draw a…

This is the spirit of our Constitution, not only in its settled course, but in all its revolutions.