Let the pulpit resound with the doctrines and sentiments of religious liberty... Let us hear the dignity of his [man's] nature, and the noble rank he holds among the works of God... Let it be known, that British liberties are not the grants of princes or parliaments.

Politics are the divine science, after all.

Power always sincerely, conscientiously, de très bon foi, believes itself right. Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak.

I am quite content to come home and go to Farming, be a select Man, and owe no Man any Thing but good Will. There I can get a little health and teach my Boys to be Lawyers.

A taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a great man.

The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to prevent their growth in our own.

Slavery is a foul contagion in the human character.