Edmund Burke: “We have shown you how greatly the former were diminished, and in what manner the latter were reduced to the worst of all…”

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.

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.

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.