Edmund Burke: “He knew too well, and he felt as much as any man, how difficult it was to accommodate a standing army to a free…”

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

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

Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity.

As he is not to obey us, but we are to obey the law in him, our Constitution has made no sort of provision towards rendering him, as a servant, in any degree responsible.