Edmund Burke: “It is with them a war or a revolution, or it is nothing.”

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.

An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.

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

The ceremony of cashiering kings, of which these gentlemen talk so much at their ease, can rarely, if ever, be performed without force.