Edmund Burke: “With them everything else perishes almost as soon as it is formed; this hatred alone is immortal.”

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

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

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

The House of Lords, for instance, is not morally competent to dissolve the House of Commons,--no, nor even to dissolve itself, nor to abdicate, if it would, its portion in the legislature of the kingdom.