Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

To take away (voting) is to reduce a man to slavery.

For freemen like brothers agree; With one spirit endured, they one friendship pursued, And their temple was Liberty Tree

The Sun never shined on a cause of greater worth.

The error of those who reason by precedents drawn from antiquity, respecting the rights of man, is that they do not go far enough into antiquity.

To possess ourselves of a clear idea of what government is, or ought to be, we must trace it to its origin.

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.