Edmund Burke: “It is the same folly that has lost you at once the benefit of the West and of the East.”

Who could flatter himself that these men, suddenly, and as it were by enchantment, snatched from the humblest rank of subordination, would not be intoxicated with their unprepared greatness?

By adhering in this manner and on those principles to our forefathers, we are guided, not by the superstition of antiquarians, but by the spirit of philosophic analogy.

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

The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.