Edmund Burke: “It depends on you alone to take away or not to take away the country out of my hands.”

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

No experience has taught us that in any other course or method than that of an hereditary crown our liberties can be regularly perpetuated and preserved sacred as our hereditary right.

Who could conceive that men who are habitually meddling, daring, subtle, active, of litigious dispositions and unquiet minds, would easily fall back into their old condition of obscure contention, and laborious, low, and unprofitable…

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