Edmund Burke: “Those who depart from it, whether there or here, are attainted, corrupted in blood, and wholly fallen from their…”

Their objects would be enlarged with their elevation; but their disposition, and habits, and mode of accomplishing their designs must remain the same.

We procure reverence to our civil institutions on the principle upon which Nature teaches us to revere individual men: on account of their age, and on account of those from whom they are descended.

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

They have little regard to the obvious consequences of their doctrine, though they may see that it leaves positive authority in very few of the positive institutions of this country.