Edmund Burke: “No, that is the language of false morality; you ought to hate the crime and the criminal, if the crime is of magnitude.”

Who could flatter himself that these men, suddenly, and as it were by enchantment, snatched from the humblest rank of subordination, would not be intoxicated with their unprepared greatness?

As he is not to obey us, but we are to obey the law in him, our Constitution has made no sort of provision towards rendering him, as a servant, in any degree responsible.

Those who are servants in name, as well as in effect, do not like to be told of their situation, their duty, and their obligations.

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.