Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never fear their leading you out of [any difficult situation] in the easiest manner possible.

The merchants will manage [commerce] the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves.

Circumstances sometimes require, that rights the most unquestionable should be advanced with delicacy.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.

[T]he dignity of parliament it seems can brook no opposition to it's power. Strange that a set of men who have made sale of theirvirtue to the minister should yet talk of retaining dignity!

Those who wish to be ignorant and free, believe in something that never was and never shall be.