Edmund Burke: “You can have no friends in whom you cannot rationally confide.”

Who could doubt but that, at any expense to the state, of which they understood nothing, they must pursue their private interests, which they understood but too well?

Unquestionably there was at the Revolution, in the person of King William, a small and a temporary deviation from the strict order of a regular hereditary succession; but it is against all genuine principles of jurisprudence to draw a…

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

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