[T]he people seem to have deposited the monarchical and taken up the republican government with as much ease as would have attended their throwing off an old and putting on a new suit of clothes.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence.

Every male citizen of the commonwealth, liable to taxes or to militia duty in any county, shall have a right to vote for representatives for that county to the legislature.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

One man with courage is a majority.

Difference of opinion leads to inquiry, and inquiry to the truth.