Edmund Burke: “It is an obvious truth, that no constitution can defend itself: it must be defended by the wisdom and fortitude of men.”

If all the absurd theories of lawyers and divines were to vitiate the objects in which they are conversant, we should have no law and no religion left in the world.

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

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.