The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
Man did not make the earth, and though he had a natural right to occupy it, he had no right to locate as his property in perpetuity, any part of it.
The graceful pride of truth knows no extremes, and preserves, in every latitude of life, the right-angled character of man.
Let them call me rebel, and welcome, I feel no concern from it.
Every proprietor owes to the community a ground-rent for the land which he holds.
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.