Edmund Burke: “In such an attempt you hurt those who are able to return kindness or to resent injury.”

Let us imitate their caution, if we wish to deserve their fortune or to retain their bequests.

Our people will find employment enough for a truly patriotic, free, and independent spirit, in guarding what they possess from violation.

I would not exclude alteration neither; but even when I changed, it should be to preserve.

They will become flatterers instead of legislators,--the instruments, not the guides of the people.