Edmund Burke: “You cannot deliberate on the confusion of the army of the state, without disclosing the worse disorders of the armed…”

Governments must be abused and deranged indeed, before it can be thought of; and the prospect of the future must be as bad as the experience of the past.

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…

By adhering in this manner and on those principles to our forefathers, we are guided, not by the superstition of antiquarians, but by the spirit of philosophic analogy.

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