Man ... feels that he is a participator in the government of affairs not merely at an election, one day in the year, but every day.

The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.

A pirate spreading misery and ruin over the face of the ocean

[T]he dignity of parliament it seems can brook no opposition to it's power. Strange that a set of men who have made sale of theirvirtue to the minister should yet talk of retaining dignity!

Communities should be planned with an eye to the effect on the human spirit of being continually surrounded by a maximum of beauty.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

Yet by such worthless beings is a great nation to be governed and even made to deify their old king because he is only a fool and a maniac, and to forgive and forget his having lost to them a great and flourishing empire.