Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself. She seldom has received much aid from the power of great men to whom she is rarely known and seldom welcome. She has no need of force to procure entrance into the minds of men.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

The art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason and information.

History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny.

On every unauthoritative exercise of power by the legislature must the people rise in rebellion or their silence be construed into a surrender of that power to them? If so, how many rebellions should we have had already?

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

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