We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them. Mankind are governed more by their feeling than by reason. Events which excite those feelings will produce wonderful effects.

[M]en will be free no longer then while they remain virtuous.

A nation of shopkeepers are very seldom so disinterested.

The utopian schemes of leveling and a community of goods, are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in the crown. These ideas are arbitrary, despotic, and, in our government unconstitutional.

The right to freedom being the gift of God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave.

Let no man thirst for good beer.

All men have a right to remain in a state of nature as long as they please; and in case of intolerable oppression, civil or religious, to leave the society they belong to, and enter into another.