Edmund Burke: “What we did was in truth and substance, and in a constitutional light, a revolution, not made, but prevented.”

This idea of a liberal descent inspires us with a sense of habitual native dignity, which prevents that upstart insolence almost inevitably adhering to and disgracing those who are the first acquirers of any distinction.

Who could conceive that men who are habitually meddling, daring, subtle, active, of litigious dispositions and unquiet minds, would easily fall back into their old condition of obscure contention, and laborious, low, and unprofitable…

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

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.