Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.

The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!

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.

They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.