Edmund Burke: “By not running into every popular humor, he may depend upon it, the popularity of his character will wear the better.”

Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity.

Those who are servants in name, as well as in effect, do not like to be told of their situation, their duty, and their obligations.

Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.

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