Edmund Burke: “Mere spectacles, mere names, will become sufficient causes to stimulate the people to war and tumult.”

They look upon the legal hereditary succession of their crown as among their rights, not as among their wrongs,--as a benefit, not as a grievance,--as a security for their liberty, not as a badge of servitude.

A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

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.

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