Edmund Burke: “I am ready to answer every particular question that may be put against myself, upon honor or upon oath.”

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

They threw a politic, well-wrought veil over every circumstance tending to weaken the rights which in the meliorated order of succession they meant to perpetuate, or which might furnish a precedent for any future departure from what they…

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…

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