I do not say that, when brought to the test, I shall be invincible.

Government is founded not on force, as was the theory of Hobbes; nor on compact, as was the theory of Locke and of the revolution of 1688; nor on property, as was the assertion of Harrington. It springs from the necessities of our nature, and has an everlasting foundation in the unchangeable will of God.

An act against the Constitution is void; an act against natural equity is void.

These manly sentiments, in private life, make the good citizen; in public life, the patriot and the hero.

[The passage of the Sugar Act] set people a thinking, in six months, more than they had done in their whole lives before.

Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the archangel shall excite different emotions in his soul.

My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning.