Edmund Burke: “It is ten thousand times more necessary to show himself a man of power than a man of integrity, in almost all the…”

It therefore secures both an hereditary crown and an hereditary allegiance.

A few years ago I should be ashamed to overload a matter so capable of supporting itself by the then unnecessary support of any argument; but this seditious, unconstitutional doctrine is now publicly taught, avowed, and printed.

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

If all the absurd theories of lawyers and divines were to vitiate the objects in which they are conversant, we should have no law and no religion left in the world.