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.

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

There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.

I own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please.

I dread our own power, and our own ambition; I dread our being too much dreaded... We may say that we shall not abuse this astonishing, and hitherto unheard-of-power. But every other nation will think we shall abuse it. It is impossible but that, sooner or later, this state of things must produce a combination against us which may end in our ruin.

Religion is for the man in humble life, and to raise his nature, and to put him in mind of a state in which the privileges of opulence will cease, when he will be equal by nature, and may be more than equal by virtue.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.