The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.

The worthy gentleman who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest, whilst his desires were as warm and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly told us what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue.

Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.