Edmund Burke: “Respecting ourselves, we shall be respected by the world.”

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.

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.

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.