The right of self-government does not comprehend the government of others.

It is an encouraging observation that no good measure was ever proposed which, if duly pursued, failed to prevail in the end.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

The general desire of men to live by their heads rather than their hands, and the strong allurements of great cities to those who have any turn for dissipation, threaten to make them here, as in Europe, the sinks of voluntary misery.

One war, such as that of our Revolution, is enough for one life.

The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil and religious rights of man.

Question boldly even the existence of God.