Edmund Burke: “Littleness in object and in means to them appears soundness and sobriety.”

A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.

Governments must be abused and deranged indeed, before it can be thought of; and the prospect of the future must be as bad as the experience of the past.

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