Edmund Burke: “In their political arrangements, men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the…”

The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.

By adhering in this manner and on those principles to our forefathers, we are guided, not by the superstition of antiquarians, but by the spirit of philosophic analogy.

They have little regard to the obvious consequences of their doctrine, though they may see that it leaves positive authority in very few of the positive institutions of this country.

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