The sheep are happier of themselves, than under the care of wolves.

It is too late in the day for men of sincerity to pretend they believe in the Platonic mysticisms that three are one, and one is three; and yet that the one is not three, and the three are not one.

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

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

A properly functioning democracy depends on an informed electorate.

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

Taxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory.