Edmund Burke: “We do not see why we have not as good a right to refuse them their rents as you have to abrogate all their honors…”

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.

Ill would our ancestors at the Revolution have deserved their fame for wisdom, if they had found no security for their freedom, but in rendering their government feeble in its operations and precarious in its tenure,--if they had been able…

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

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.