Edmund Burke: “Nor is it the worst effect of this unnatural contention, that our laws are corrupted.”

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

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

If all the absurd theories of lawyers and divines were to vitiate the objects in which they are conversant, we should have no law and no religion left in the world.

But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.