Edmund Burke: “They infested the highroads, and put a stop to all trade by plundering the merchants and travellers.”

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

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.

Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.