For an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.

I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.

Men of high learning and abilities are few in every country; and by taking in those who are not so, the able part of the body have their hands tied by the unable.

Our minds were circumscribed within narrow limits by an habitual belief that it was our duty to be subordinate to the mother country.