The nearer any disease approaches to a crisis, the nearer it is to a cure. Danger and deliverance make their advances together; and it is only in the last push that one or the other takes the lead.

Men should not petition for rights, but take them

Public credit is suspicion asleep.

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

Our present condition is, Legislation without law; wisdom without a plan; a constitution without a name; and, what is strangely astonishing, perfect independence contending for dependence.

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.

Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.