Edmund Burke: “Hastings set up cut and hacked the limbs of British subjects in the most cruel and perfidious manner, threw them into…”

All your sophisters cannot produce anything better adapted to preserve a rational and manly freedom than the course that we have pursued, who have chosen our nature rather than our speculations, our breasts rather than our inventions, for…

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

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.

The ceremony of cashiering kings, of which these gentlemen talk so much at their ease, can rarely, if ever, be performed without force.