Edmund Burke: “To speak to an Indian of his caste is to speak to him of his all.”

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

They have little regard to the obvious consequences of their doctrine, though they may see that it leaves positive authority in very few of the positive institutions of this country.

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.

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