The advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from [the clergy].

Your own reason is the only oracle given to you by God.

It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice

The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife.

[T]he people seem to have deposited the monarchical and taken up the republican government with as much ease as would have attended their throwing off an old and putting on a new suit of clothes.

Private enterprise manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal.

Every male citizen of the commonwealth, liable to taxes or to militia duty in any county, shall have a right to vote for representatives for that county to the legislature.