Edmund Burke: “Whenever our neighbor's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.”

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.

It therefore secures both an hereditary crown and an hereditary allegiance.

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.