God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.

Turning, then, from this loathsome combination of church and state, and weeping over the follies of our fellow men, who yield themselves the willing dupes and drudges of these mountebanks, I consider reformation and redress as desperate, and abandon them to the Quixotism of more enthusiastic minds.

Fear can only prevail when victims are ignorant of the facts.

The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents.

Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have remover their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever.

The worst day in a man's life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing.

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