Edmund Burke: “If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free: if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.”

Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.

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

A few years ago I should be ashamed to overload a matter so capable of supporting itself by the then unnecessary support of any argument; but this seditious, unconstitutional doctrine is now publicly taught, avowed, and printed.

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.