It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.

The intimacy which is contracted in infancy, and friendship which is formed in misfortune, are, of all others, the most lasting and unalterable.

Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.

To bring the matter to one point, Is the power who is jealous of our prosperity, a proper power to govern us? Whoever says, No, to this question, is an independent, for independency means no more than this, whether we shall make our own law, or, whether the king, the greatest enemy which this continent hath, or can have, shall tell us there shall be no laws but such as I like.

The Grecians and Romans were strongly possessed of the spirit of liberty but not the principle, for at the time they were determined not to be slaves themselves, they employed their power to enslave the rest of mankind.