Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

[O]ur rules can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass through so many new hands.

The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most knows best how little he knows.

Hindsight is an exact science. Hold fast to your dreams, for it dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

Our people shall be free