Edmund Burke: “I am very apprehensive, that, so long as the slavery continues, some means for its supply will be found.”

Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.

A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

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

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.