Edmund Burke: “All the means given by Providence to make life safe and comfortable are perverted into instruments of terror and…”

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

Their objects would be enlarged with their elevation; but their disposition, and habits, and mode of accomplishing their designs must remain the same.

Those who are servants in name, as well as in effect, do not like to be told of their situation, their duty, and their obligations.

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.