Edmund Burke: “I defy even his acuteness and ingenuity to show me any one point in which the cases differ, except that it is plainly…”

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

If kings who did not owe their crown to the choice of their people had no title to make laws, what will become of the statute De tallagio non concedendo? of the Petition of Right? of the act of Habeas Corpus?

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

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.