Edmund Burke: “It was the monarchy that rendered France dangerous: Regicide neutralizes all the acrimony of that power, and renders it…”

By adhering in this manner and on those principles to our forefathers, we are guided, not by the superstition of antiquarians, but by the spirit of philosophic analogy.

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.

But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.