Truth between candid minds can never do harm.

Every man is under the natural duty of contributing to the necessities of the society; and this is all the laws should enforce on him.

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

A single good government is a blessing to the whole earth.

Establish the eternal truth that acquiescence under insult is not the way to escape war.

Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power.

The foundation on which (our government is) built is the natural equality of man, the denial of every pre-eminence but that annexed to legal office, and particularly the denial of a pre-eminence by birth.