The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

I am a sect by myself, as far as I know.

I have overlived the generation with which mutual labors & perils begat mutual confidence and influence.

The concentrating of powers in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one.

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.

The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to. It is necessary, to keep he waters pure.

If you have to eat crow, eat it while it's young and tender.