Edmund Burke: “Moderation, prudence, and equity are far more suitable to our condition than loftiness, and confidence, and rigor.”

An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.

The speculative line of demarcation, where obedience ought to end and resistance must begin, is faint, obscure, and not easily definable.

As he is not to obey us, but we are to obey the law in him, our Constitution has made no sort of provision towards rendering him, as a servant, in any degree responsible.

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…