No point is of more importance than that the right of impeachment should be continued. Shall any man be above Justice?

I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.

The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.

The epithets of parent and child have been long applied to Great Britain and her colonies, [but] we rarely see anything from your side of the water except the authoritative style of a master to a school-boy.

The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.

There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint.

All men are created equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; among which are the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing the obtaining of happiness and safety.