Power is not alluring to pure minds.

The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.

An acre of the best ground for hemp, is to be selected and sewn in hemp and be kept for a permanent hemp patch.

I have sometimes asked myself whether my country is the better for my having lived at all? I do not know that it is. I have been the instrument of doing the following things; but they would have been done by others; some of them, perhaps, a little better.

The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state.

Under the law of nature, all men are born free, every one comes into the world with a right to his own person, which includes the liberty of moving and using it at his own will. This is what is called personal liberty, and is given him by the Author

Our fellow-citizens think they have a right to full information, in a case of such great concernment to them. It is their sweat which is to earn all the expenses of the war, and their blood which is to flow in expiation of the causes of it.