Edmund Burke: “We are bought by the enemy with the treasure from our own coffers.”

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

But the king of Great Britain obeys no other person; all other persons are individually, and collectively too, under him, and owe to him a legal obedience.

But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.

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.