Edmund Burke: “They who make their arrangements in the first run of misadventure, and in a temper of mind the common fruit of…”

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.

Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.

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.

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.