Edmund Burke: “But if we may judge by those ten precepts of Genghiz Khân which we have, there is not a shadow of arbitrary power to be…”

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

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

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.

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?