A single good government is a blessing to the whole earth.

When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.

A Man's management of his own purse speaks volumes about character

I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.

I have a right to nothing which another has a right to take away.

On the subject of the history of the American Revolution, you ask who shall write it? Who can write it? And who will ever be able to write it? Nobody, except merely its external facts... all its councils, designs and discussions having been conducted by Congress [behind] closed doors - and no members, as far as I know, having even made notes of them. These, which are the life and soul of history, must forever be unknown.

A free government is of all others the most energetic.