Edmund Burke: “In case my honor is not left to me, how shall I be equal to the business of the government?”

By adhering in this manner and on those principles to our forefathers, we are guided, not by the superstition of antiquarians, but by the spirit of philosophic analogy.

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.

The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.