Edmund Burke: “Impeachment, the great guardian of the purity of the constitution, i. 495.”

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

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.

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.

Who could conceive that men who are habitually meddling, daring, subtle, active, of litigious dispositions and unquiet minds, would easily fall back into their old condition of obscure contention, and laborious, low, and unprofitable…