Edmund Burke: “Instead of a public officer in an abusive department, whose province is an object to be regulated, he becomes a criminal…”

An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.

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.

Governments must be abused and deranged indeed, before it can be thought of; and the prospect of the future must be as bad as the experience of the past.

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.