Edmund Burke: “The social order which restrains it feeds it.”

Ill would our ancestors at the Revolution have deserved their fame for wisdom, if they had found no security for their freedom, but in rendering their government feeble in its operations and precarious in its tenure,--if they had been able…

All your sophisters cannot produce anything better adapted to preserve a rational and manly freedom than the course that we have pursued, who have chosen our nature rather than our speculations, our breasts rather than our inventions, for…

An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.

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