Edmund Burke: “When I say that we of the people ought to be informed, inclusively I say we ought not to be flattered: flattery is the…”

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.

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

Governments must be abused and deranged indeed, before it can be thought of; and the prospect of the future must be as bad as the experience of the past.

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