Edmund Burke: “There are moments in the fortune of states, when particular men are called to make improvements by great mental…”

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

So far is it from being true that we acquired a right by the Revolution to elect our kings, that, if we had possessed it before, the English nation did at that time most solemnly renounce and abdicate it, for themselves, and for all their…

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

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.