Edmund Burke: “These writers make even virtue a pander to vice.”

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

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

Who could doubt but that, at any expense to the state, of which they understood nothing, they must pursue their private interests, which they understood but too well?

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.