Edmund Burke: “There is no doubt that the approaching executions will very much determine the future conduct of those people.”

They have little regard to the obvious consequences of their doctrine, though they may see that it leaves positive authority in very few of the positive institutions of this country.

The speculative line of demarcation, where obedience ought to end and resistance must begin, is faint, obscure, and not easily definable.

Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.

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