Edmund Burke: “What! shall there be no reserved power in the empire, to supply a deficiency which may weaken, divide, and dissipate the…”

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.

But supposing they had ranked as they ought to do, and as with us they do actually, the sides of sick-beds are not the academies for forming statesmen and legislators.

The ceremony of cashiering kings, of which these gentlemen talk so much at their ease, can rarely, if ever, be performed without force.

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