Edmund Burke: “But what is to them a very full justification is not quite so honorable to that power from whose maxims and temper so…”

They look on the frame of their commonwealth, such as it stands, to be of inestimable value; and they conceive the undisturbed succession of the crown to be a pledge of the stability and perpetuity of all the other members of our…

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

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

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.