Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty.
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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.