I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear this morning brings The outrage of the poor.

We sell the thrones of angels for a short and turbulent pleasure.

Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and out American colleges will recede in their public importance whilst they grow richer every year.

Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.