Edmund Burke: “England never preserved a firmer countenance or a more vigorous arm to all her enemies and to all her rivals.”

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.

An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.

Who could flatter himself that these men, suddenly, and as it were by enchantment, snatched from the humblest rank of subordination, would not be intoxicated with their unprepared greatness?

Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity.