Evil prevails when good men fail to act.

The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man.

The men of England,- the men, I mean, of light and leading in England.

When any work seems to have required immense force and labor to effect it, the idea is grand.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends the most to the perpetuation of society itself.

Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.