To learn to die is an heroic work.

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

The honorable William Penn, late governor of Pennsylvania, was chosen agent to the Court of Britain, and directed to deliver the petition to the King himself and to endeavor by his personal influence to procure a favorable reception to this last address.

Before this address to my countrymen is closed, I beg leave to observe, that as a new century has dawned upon us, the mind is naturally led ot contemplate the great events that have run parallel with and have just closed the last.

A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United STates was drawn by the ingenious and philosophic pen of Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, a delegate from the state of Virginia

Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.

The waves have rolled upon me, the billows are repeatedly broken over me, yet I am not sunk down.