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

The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition.

By the Declaration of Independence, dreaded by the foes an for a time doubtfully viewed by many of the friends of America, everything stood on a new and more respectable footing, both with regard to the operations of war or negotiations with foreign powers.

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.

The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated.

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy

To learn to die is an heroic work.