Edmund Burke: “Would not all my duties and all my affections be there, and there only?”

Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.

Governments must be abused and deranged indeed, before it can be thought of; and the prospect of the future must be as bad as the experience of the past.

They threw a politic, well-wrought veil over every circumstance tending to weaken the rights which in the meliorated order of succession they meant to perpetuate, or which might furnish a precedent for any future departure from what they…

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