Turbulent, discontented men of quality, in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order.

Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.

In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.

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.

A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.

Turbulent, discontented men of quality, in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.