Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.

It is the man who does not want to express an opinion whose opinion I want.

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts.

[T]he man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document, an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times, and so to embalm it there, that to-day, and in all coming days, it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers of reappearing tyranny and oppression.

Committee: A group which succeeds in getting something done only when it consists of three members, one of whom happens to be sick and another absent.