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

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

Debt and revolution are inseparable as cause and effect.

The cutting of heads is become so much a la mode, that one is apt to feel of a morning whether their own is on their shoulders.

The dead should not rule the living

I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.

Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have remover their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever.