Edmund Burke: “The litigation is not, nor ever has been, between their rapacity and his hoarded riches.”

The ceremony of cashiering kings, of which these gentlemen talk so much at their ease, can rarely, if ever, be performed without force.

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

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

But supposing they had ranked as they ought to do, and as with us they do actually, the sides of sick-beds are not the academies for forming statesmen and legislators.