When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it.

Still less let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.

We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.

One generation cannot bind another.

I hope the terms of Excellency, Honor, Worship, Esquire, forever disappear from among us... I wish that of Mr. would follow them.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people.