Edmund Burke: “I do not know which I would sacrifice: I would keep them both: it is not necessary I should sacrifice either.”

Their objects would be enlarged with their elevation; but their disposition, and habits, and mode of accomplishing their designs must remain the same.

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.

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