Implements of war and subjugation are the last arguments to which kings resort.

O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if, to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people! Your arms, wherewith you could defend yourselves, are gone; and you have no longer an aristocratical, no longer a democratical spirit. Did you ever read of any revolution in a nation, brought about by the punishment of those in power, inflicted by those who had no power at all?

This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.

I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil.

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

United we stand, divided we fall. Let us not split into factions which must destroy that union upon which our existence hangs.