EVERY national church or religion has established itself by pretending some special mission from God, communicated to certain individuals. The Jews have their Moses; the Christians their Jesus Christ, their apostles and saints; and the Turks their Mahomet; as if the way to God was not open to every man alike.

What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue.

No nation ought to be without a debt. A national debt is a national bond; and when it bears no interest, is in no case a grievance.

When it becomes necessary to do a thing, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it.

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

A government of our own is our natural right; and when a man seriously reflects on the precariousness of human affairs, he will become convinced, that it is infinitely wiser and safer, to form a constitution of our own in a cool deliberate manner, while we have it in our power, than to trust such an interesting event to time and chance.

It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.