Edmund Burke: “But, in that state of things, a civil war, which would give to good men and a good cause some means of struggle, is a…”

Ill would our ancestors at the Revolution have deserved their fame for wisdom, if they had found no security for their freedom, but in rendering their government feeble in its operations and precarious in its tenure,--if they had been able…

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.

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

Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.