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

Men have no right to what is not reasonable, and to what is not for their benefit.

What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of knowing the fitness of your man; and then you must retain some hold upon him by personal obligation or dependence.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.

The great Error of our Nature is, not to know where to stop, not to be satisfied with any reasonable Acquirement; not to compound with our Condition; but to lose all we have gained by an insatiable Pursuit after more.

I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.