Edmund Burke: “But power, of some kind or other, will survive the shock in which manners and opinions perish; and it will find other…”

They have little regard to the obvious consequences of their doctrine, though they may see that it leaves positive authority in very few of the positive institutions of this country.

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.

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.

But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.