Edmund Burke: “They will speculate on consequences when they see at court an ambassador whose robes are lined with a scarlet dyed in…”

Their objects would be enlarged with their elevation; but their disposition, and habits, and mode of accomplishing their designs must remain the same.

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

The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.

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.