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.

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

The origin of all power is in the people, and they have an incontestable right to check the creatures of their own creation.

It is necessary for every American, with becoming energy to endeavor to stop the dissemination of principles evidently destructive of the cause for which they have bled. It must be the combined virtue of the rulers and of the people to do this, and to rescue and save their civil and religious rights from the outstretched arm of tyranny, which may appear under any mode or form of government.

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

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

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.