A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.

Every object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point

When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}

O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.

The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community.