Now is the seedtime of continental union, faith and honor. The least fracture now, will be like a name engraved with the point of a pin on the tender rind of a young oak; the wound would enlarge with the tree, and posterity read in it full grown characters.

The declaration which says that God visits the sins of the fathers upon the children is contrary to every principle of moral justice.

It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves.

The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.

What more does man want to know than that the hand or power that made these things is divine, is omnipotent? Let him believe this with the force it is impossible to repel, if he permits his reason to act, and his rule of moral life will follow of course.

A bad cause will ever be supported by bad means and bad men.

Wherefore, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expense and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others.