Edmund Burke: “Nay, he tells you, that, if corruption did not exist, if it was not connived at, that the India Company could not exist.”

If all the absurd theories of lawyers and divines were to vitiate the objects in which they are conversant, we should have no law and no religion left in the world.

But the king of Great Britain obeys no other person; all other persons are individually, and collectively too, under him, and owe to him a legal obedience.

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

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