Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials.

The defeat of the Americans in Canada and the advantages gained by the British arms in the Jerseys, and indeed for some months in every other quarter, gave to the royal cause an air of triumph.

The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul.

No republic ever yet stood on a stable foundation without satisfying the common people.

The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair.

Mankind may amuse themselves with theoretic systems of liberty... but we can only discern its true value by the practical and wretched effects of slavery.

Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.