Edmund Burke: “But it seems our nation had more skill and ability in destroying than in settling a colony.”

This idea of a liberal descent inspires us with a sense of habitual native dignity, which prevents that upstart insolence almost inevitably adhering to and disgracing those who are the first acquirers of any distinction.

A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

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…