Yet by such worthless beings is a great nation to be governed and even made to deify their old king because he is only a fool and a maniac, and to forgive and forget his having lost to them a great and flourishing empire.

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

Now I will avow, that I then believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God; and that those principles of liberty are as unalterable as human nature and our terrestrial, mundane system.

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

The further the departure from direct and constant control by the citizens, the less has the government of the ingredient of republicanism.

I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our forefathers, as Israel of old.

All... natural rights may be abridged or modified in [their] exercise by law.