Edmund Burke: “But when the man is to be amended, and by amendment to be preserved, then the line of duty takes another direction.”

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

By adhering in this manner and on those principles to our forefathers, we are guided, not by the superstition of antiquarians, but by the spirit of philosophic analogy.

If all the absurd theories of lawyers and divines were to vitiate the objects in which they are conversant, we should have no law and no religion left in the world.

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.