The King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience.

Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure

Being a Christian... is a character which I prize far above all this world has or can boast.

You are not to inquire how your trade may be increased, nor how you are to become a great and powerful people, but how your liberties can be secured; for liberty ought to be the direct end of your government.

Give me liberty or give me death.

Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell; and George the Third — ['Treason!' cried the Speaker] — may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.

Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction?