Edmund Burke: “I am more concerned in what we agree than in what we differ.”

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.

The ceremony of cashiering kings, of which these gentlemen talk so much at their ease, can rarely, if ever, be performed without force.

By adhering in this manner and on those principles to our forefathers, we are guided, not by the superstition of antiquarians, but by the spirit of philosophic analogy.

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