Edmund Burke: “Suffering, the force to endure, needful to those who aspire to act greatly, v. 250.”

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

Who could doubt but that, at any expense to the state, of which they understood nothing, they must pursue their private interests, which they understood but too well?

The speculative line of demarcation, where obedience ought to end and resistance must begin, is faint, obscure, and not easily definable.

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.