Edmund Burke: “He is not only a practitioner of bribery, but a professor, a doctor upon the subject.”

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.

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

This idea of a liberal descent inspires us with a sense of habitual native dignity, which prevents that upstart insolence almost inevitably adhering to and disgracing those who are the first acquirers of any distinction.