Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers (adminstrators) too plainly proves a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing us to slavery.

The love of justice and the love of country plead equally the cause of these people, and it is a moral reproach to us that they should have pleaded it so long in vain.

Not for ourselves alone, but for all humanity... Let us hasten to find the path that leads to liberty, safety, and peace for everyone.

Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.

We figure great careers aren't made. They're experienced.

No nation is drunken where wine is cheap.

Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence.