Destroy your enemy by making him your friend.

So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.

Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.

confused and Stunned, like a duck hit on the head.

The Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats.