Edmund Burke: “We call upon you for our liberties; and hope that the freedom of the Commons will be preserved by the justice of the…”

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.

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

But supposing they had ranked as they ought to do, and as with us they do actually, the sides of sick-beds are not the academies for forming statesmen and legislators.

Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.