Edmund Burke: “We can bear with patience their enmity to ourselves; but their friendship with you we will not endure.”

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.

When such an unwarrantable maxim is once established, that no throne is lawful but the elective, no one act of the princes who preceded this era of fictitious election can be valid.

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