The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

That these are our grievances which we have thus laid before his majesty, with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes a free people claiming their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

we defer therefore till this time twelve month to avail ourselves of the instruction of that place, and particularly of your kindness in the two branches of Botany and Natural history to which we wish him particularly to apply.

The only true corrective of Constitutional abuses is education.

That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone.

There are other places at which ... the laws have said there shall be towns; but Nature has said there shall not, and they remain unworthy of enumeration.