A single zealot may commence prosecutor, and better men be his victims.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

Doubts and jealousies often beget the facts they fear.

I deny the power of the general government to making paper money, or anything else a legal tender.

By making this wine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt.

A first attempt to recover the right of self government may fail, so may a second, a third, etc. But as a younger and more instructed race comes on, the sentiment becomes more and more intuitive, and a fourth, a fifth, or some subsequent one of the ever renewed attempts will ultimately succeed... To attain all this, however, rivers of blood must yet flow, and years of desolation pass over; yet the object is worth rivers of blood and years of desolation. For what inheritance so valuable can man leave to his posterity?

I join you therefore in branding as cowardly the idea that the human mind is incapable of further advances.