I call not upon a few, but upon all: not on this state or that state, but on every state; up and help us; lay your shoulders to the wheel; better have too much force than too little, when so great an object is at stake.

The protection of a man's person is more sacred than the protection of his property.

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.

Evils, like poisons, have their uses, and there are diseases which no other remedy can reach.

There is something absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.

These are the days that try man's heart.

To bring the matter to one point, Is the power who is jealous of our prosperity, a proper power to govern us? Whoever says, No, to this question, is an independent, for independency means no more than this, whether we shall make our own law, or, whether the king, the greatest enemy which this continent hath, or can have, shall tell us there shall be no laws but such as I like.