Edmund Burke: “If well employed, and but a little improved, the East India Company possessed an advantage unknown before to the chief…”

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.

As he is not to obey us, but we are to obey the law in him, our Constitution has made no sort of provision towards rendering him, as a servant, in any degree responsible.

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

But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.