Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions.

When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.

To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.

The danger to which the success of revolutions is most exposed, is that of attempting them before the principles on which they proceed, and the advantages to result from them, are sufficiently seen and understood.

From the errors of other nations, let us learn wisdom.

We hold the moral obligation of providing for old age, helpless infancy, and poverty is far superior to that of supplying the invented wants of courtly extravagance.

The Sun never shined on a cause of greater worth.