Edmund Burke: “This great law does not arise from our conventions or compacts; on the contrary, it gives to our conventions and…”

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.

They have little regard to the obvious consequences of their doctrine, though they may see that it leaves positive authority in very few of the positive institutions of this country.

Their objects would be enlarged with their elevation; but their disposition, and habits, and mode of accomplishing their designs must remain the same.

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