Edmund Burke: “Many are the collateral disadvantages, amongst a privileged people, which must attend on those who have no privileges.”

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

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

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.

Ill would our ancestors at the Revolution have deserved their fame for wisdom, if they had found no security for their freedom, but in rendering their government feeble in its operations and precarious in its tenure,--if they had been able…