Edmund Burke: “Ignorance is no excuse for a judge; it is changing the nature of his crime; it is not absolving.”

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.

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.

Governments must be abused and deranged indeed, before it can be thought of; and the prospect of the future must be as bad as the experience of the past.

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