Edmund Burke: “But the mischief and dishonor is, that you have not done what you had given the colonies just cause to expect, when your…”

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

They threw a politic, well-wrought veil over every circumstance tending to weaken the rights which in the meliorated order of succession they meant to perpetuate, or which might furnish a precedent for any future departure from what they…

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

But supposing they had ranked as they ought to do, and as with us they do actually, the sides of sick-beds are not the academies for forming statesmen and legislators.