Edmund Burke: “Warring there, we should have led our arms to the capital of Wrong.”

They have little regard to the obvious consequences of their doctrine, though they may see that it leaves positive authority in very few of the positive institutions of this country.

Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity.

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

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