Edmund Burke: “The appetite of justice is easily satisfied, and it is best nourished with the least possible blood.”

This idea of a liberal descent inspires us with a sense of habitual native dignity, which prevents that upstart insolence almost inevitably adhering to and disgracing those who are the first acquirers of any distinction.

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.

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

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