Edmund Burke: “Even wolves and tigers, when gorged with their prey, are safe and gentle.”

Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.

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.

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

Who could conceive that men who are habitually meddling, daring, subtle, active, of litigious dispositions and unquiet minds, would easily fall back into their old condition of obscure contention, and laborious, low, and unprofitable…