It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.

If we owned the property, we will be free and prosperous. If so they regain control, we will become poor

Parliament is a deliberate assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purpose, not local prejudices ought to guide but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole.

Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not the occasional organs by which they act, and the transitory modes in which they appear.

Nothing ought to be more weighed than the nature of books recommended by public authority. So recommended, they soon form the character of the age.

An extreme rigor is sure to arm everything against it.

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.