I have heard it remarked that men are not to be reasoned out of an opinion they have not reasoned themselves into.

I have heard it remarked that men are not to be reasoned out of an opinion they have not reasoned themselves into.

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.

All such men are, or ought to be, agreed, that simple governments are despotisms; and of all despotisms, a democracy, though the least durable, is the most violent.

Time never fails to bring every exalted reputation to a strict scrutiny.

The rights of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing the government, are declared to be inherent in the people.

A large portion of our citizens, who will not believe, even on the evidence of facts, that any public evils exist, or are impending. They deride the apprehensions of those who foresee, that licentiousness will prove, as it ever has proved, fatal to liberty.