Independence can be trusted nowhere but with the people in mass. They are inherently independent of all but moral law.

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

From candlelight to early bedtime, I read.

The Habeas Corpus secures every man here, alien or citizen, against everything which is not law, whatever shape it may assume.

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

I see no comfort in outliving one's friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past.

We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.