If the way to do good to my country were to render myself popular, I could easily do it. But extravagant popularity is not the road to public advantage.

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

When legislature is corrupted, the people are undone.

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers and destroyers press upon them so fast that there is no resisting afterwards. The nature of the encroachments is to, grow every day more encroaching; like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour.

I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading.

Where annual elections end, there slavery begins ... Humility, patience, and moderation, without which every man in power becomes a ravenous beast of prey.

The appearance of religion only on Sunday proves that it is only an appearance.