Edmund Burke: “It is nothing to an oppressed people, to say that in part they are protected at our charge.”

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

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

A few years ago I should be ashamed to overload a matter so capable of supporting itself by the then unnecessary support of any argument; but this seditious, unconstitutional doctrine is now publicly taught, avowed, and printed.

Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.