There are two distinct classes of men - those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.

Let the world see that this nation can bear prosperity; and that her honest virtue in time of peace is equal to her bravest valor in time of war.

The cause of America is in great measure the cause of all mankind.

The United States of America will sound as pompously in the world or in history as The Kingdom of Great Britain.

If men will permit themselves to think, as rational beings ought to think, nothing can appear more ridiculous and absurd, exclusive of all moral reflections, than to be at the expence of building navies, filling them with men, and then hauling them into the ocean, to try which can sink each other fastester. Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infintely more advantage than any victory with all its expence. But this, though it best answers the purpose of Nations, does not that of Court Governments, whose habited policy is pretence for taxation, places, and offices.

The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax

Everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'tis time to part.