The policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body) may be much questioned; for, by so doing, they retain the language, habits, and principles (good or bad) which they bring with them. Whereas by an intermixture with our people, they, or their descendants, get assimilated to our customs, measures, and laws: in a word, soon become one people.

We must take care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture.

The Stamp Act imposed on the colonies by the Parliament of Great Britain is an ill-judged measure. Parliament has no right to put its hands into our pockets without our consent.

Laws or ordinances unobserved, or partially attended to, had better never have been made.

Purity of morals [is] the only sure foundation of public happiness in any country.

Indians and wolves are both beasts of prey, tho' they differ in shape.

It is impossible to account for the creation of the universe without the agency of a Supreme Being.