Edmund Burke: “In every accident which may happen through life, in pain, in sorrow, in depression, and distress, I will call to mind…”

This idea of a liberal descent inspires us with a sense of habitual native dignity, which prevents that upstart insolence almost inevitably adhering to and disgracing those who are the first acquirers of any distinction.

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

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.

We procure reverence to our civil institutions on the principle upon which Nature teaches us to revere individual men: on account of their age, and on account of those from whom they are descended.