The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.

The public interest requires doing today those things that men of intelligence and good will would wish, five or ten years hence, had been done.

Government is the exercise of all the great qualities of the human mind.

You will not think it unnatural that those who have an object depending, which strongly engages their hopes and fears, should be somewhat inclining to superstition.

General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.

The distinguishing part of our constitution is its liberty. To preserve that liberty inviolate, is the peculiar duty and proper trust of a member of the house of commons. But the liberty, the only liberty I mean, is a liberty connected with order, and that not only exists with order and virtue, but cannot exist at all without them. It inheres in good and steady government, as in its substance and vital principle.

Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.