Edmund Burke: “May you stand, not as a substitute for virtue, but as an ornament of virtue, as a security for virtue!”

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.

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

The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.

By adhering in this manner and on those principles to our forefathers, we are guided, not by the superstition of antiquarians, but by the spirit of philosophic analogy.