Edmund Burke: “I think his manifest attempt to overturn the balance of Europe a good ground of war.”

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.

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.

It therefore secures both an hereditary crown and an hereditary allegiance.