I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.

Woman is not made to be the admiration of everybody , but the happiness of one.

The tribunal of conscience exists independent of edicts and decrees.

Reflect how you are to govern a people who think they ought to be free, and think they are not. Your scheme yields no revenue; it yields nothing but discontent, disorder, disobedience; and such is the state of America, that after wading through up to your eyes in blood, you could only end up where you begun; that is, to tax where no revenue is to be found... all is confusion beyond it.

The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them.

I consider how little man is, yet, in his own mind, how great. He is lord and master of all things, yet scarce can command anything.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.