Edmund Burke: “Sure I am, that no precipitate resolution on a great change in the fundamental constitution of any country can ever be…”

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.

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.

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

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.