Edmund Burke: “They knew that the mere circumstance of privacy in a judicature, where any publicity is in use, tends to beget suspicion…”

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

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.

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.

We procure reverence to our civil institutions on the principle upon which Nature teaches us to revere individual men: on account of their age, and on account of those from whom they are descended.