Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty.

Our minds and hearts are free to believe everything or nothing at all - and it is our duty to protect and perpetuate this sacred culture of freedom.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

Equal rights for all, special privileges for none

The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression.

By... [selecting] the youths of genius from among the classes of the poor, we hope to avail the State of those talents which nature has sown as liberally among the poor as the rich, but which perish without use if not sought for and cultivated.

The clergy believe that any power confided in me will be exerted in opposition to their schemes, and they believe rightly.