Edmund Burke: “He is gone, if he imagines himself the quiet possessor of a throne.”

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.

If all the absurd theories of lawyers and divines were to vitiate the objects in which they are conversant, we should have no law and no religion left in the world.

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