A government of our own is our natural right

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

It is from the power of taxation being in the hands of those who can throw so great a part of it from their own shoulders, that it has raged without a check.

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.

The Sun never shined on a cause of greater worth.

Priests and conjurors are of the same trade.

... a thirst for power is the natural disease of monarchy.