I prefer the hardest terms of peace to the most just war.
Men are entitled to equal rights-but to equal rights to unequal things.
All political power is a trust.
Illustrious man! deriving honor less from the splendor of his situation than from the dignity of his mind.
He was uniformly of an opinion which, though not a popular one, he was ready to aver, that the right of governing was not property, but a trust.
There is a spirit of resistance implanted by the Deity in the breast of man, proportioned to the size of the wrongs he is destined to endure.