Edmund Burke: “This is, in my opinion, a rule of profound sense, and ought never to depart from the mind of an honest reformer.”

Unquestionably there was at the Revolution, in the person of King William, a small and a temporary deviation from the strict order of a regular hereditary succession; but it is against all genuine principles of jurisprudence to draw a…

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

Who could doubt but that, at any expense to the state, of which they understood nothing, they must pursue their private interests, which they understood but too well?

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