Edmund Burke: “The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man.”

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

If kings who did not owe their crown to the choice of their people had no title to make laws, what will become of the statute De tallagio non concedendo? of the Petition of Right? of the act of Habeas Corpus?

Who could flatter himself that these men, suddenly, and as it were by enchantment, snatched from the humblest rank of subordination, would not be intoxicated with their unprepared greatness?

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