We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.

It is a very great mistake to imagine that the object of loyalty is the authority and interest of one individual man, however dignified by the applause or enriched by the success of popular actions.

If our Trade be taxed, why not our Lands, or Produce in short, everything we possess? They tax us without having legal representation.

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

If taxes are laid upon us without our having a legal representation where they are laid, we are reduced from the character of free subjects to the state of tributary slaves.

He who made all men hath made the truths necessary to human happiness obvious to all. Our forefathers opened the Bible to all.

What has commonly been called rebellion has more often been nothing but a manly and glorious struggle in opposition to the lawless power of rebellious kings and princes.