Edmund Burke: “I know that no power on earth, acting as I ought to do, can touch my life, my liberty, or my property.”

But when the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service.

Every honest mind, every true lover of liberty and humanity, must rejoice to find that injustice is not always good policy, nor rapine the high-road to riches.

Rome, under her emperors, united the evils of both systems; and this unnatural combination was one great cause of her ruin.

I think our happy situation owing to our Constitution,--but owing to the whole of it, and not to any part singly,--owing in a great measure to what we have left standing in our several reviews and reformations, as well as to what we have…