Edmund Burke: “We require some food that will stick to the ribs.”

This is the spirit of our Constitution, not only in its settled course, but in all its revolutions.

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.

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.