Wine from long habit has become an indispensable for my health

No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon would be as short in that case as in any other, and its moments of ecstasy would be ransomed by years of torment and hatred.

It's only merit was in being the first publication which carried the claim of our rights their whole length, and asserted that there was no rightful link of connection between us and England but that of being under the same king.

... the common law existed while the Anglo-Saxons were yet pagans, at a time when they had never yet heard the name of Christ pronounced or knew that such a character existed.

One precedent in favor of power is stronger than a hundred against it.

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Excessive taxation . . . will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election.