The shot heard round the world.

Where do we find ourselves? In a series of which we do not know the extremes, and believe that it has none. We wake and find ourselves on a stair; there are stairs below us, which we seem to have ascended; there are stairs above us, many a one, which go upward and out of sight.

And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance.

That which shows God in me, fortifies me. That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen.

All forms of government symbolize an immortal government, common to all dynasties and independent of numbers, perfect where two men exist, perfect where there is only one man.

He who loves goodness harbors angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God.

The Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart.