Edmund Burke: “They who go out can never long with zeal and good-will support government in the hands of those they hate.”

Who could conceive that men who are habitually meddling, daring, subtle, active, of litigious dispositions and unquiet minds, would easily fall back into their old condition of obscure contention, and laborious, low, and unprofitable…

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

Unquestionably there was at the Revolution, in the person of King William, a small and a temporary deviation from the strict order of a regular hereditary succession; but it is against all genuine principles of jurisprudence to draw a…

But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.