Edmund Burke: “He is doing indeed a great good; such as rarely falls to the lot, and almost as rarely coincides with the desires, of…”

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

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

Ill would our ancestors at the Revolution have deserved their fame for wisdom, if they had found no security for their freedom, but in rendering their government feeble in its operations and precarious in its tenure,--if they had been able…

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.