Edmund Burke: “Taste and elegance, though they are reckoned only among the smaller and secondary morals, yet are of no mean importance…”

Those who are servants in name, as well as in effect, do not like to be told of their situation, their duty, and their obligations.

As he is not to obey us, but we are to obey the law in him, our Constitution has made no sort of provision towards rendering him, as a servant, in any degree responsible.

The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.

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