It is Mortifying to suppose it possible that a people able and zealous to contend with the Enemy should be reduced to fold their Arms for want of the means of defence; yet no resources that we know of, ensure us against this event.

The only true corrective of Constitutional abuses is education.

I endeavor to keep their attention fixed on the main objects of all science, the freedom & happiness of man.

A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a people who mean to be free.

So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants.

I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.

One insult pocketed soon produces another.