Edmund Burke: “In France is the bank of deposit and the bank of circulation of all the pernicious principles that are forming in every…”

A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

Who could doubt but that, at any expense to the state, of which they understood nothing, they must pursue their private interests, which they understood but too well?

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

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.