Titles do not count with posterity.

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

I know not whether taxes are raised to fight wars, or wars are fought in order to raise taxes.

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

Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying

One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise, she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass for a lion.

It is unnatural that a pure stream should flow from a foul fountain its vices are but a continuation of the vices of its origin. A man of moral honor and good political principles, cannot submit to the mean drudgery and disgraceful arts, by which such elections are carried. To be a successful candidate, he must be destitute of the qualities that constitute a just legislator: and being thus disciplined to corruption it is not to be expected that the representative should be better than the man.