War ought to be no man's wish.

A share in two revolutions is living to some purpose.

The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax

From the east to the west blow the trumpet to arms! Through the land let the sound of it flee; Let the far and the near all unite, with a cheer, In defense of our Liberty Tree.

Titles are like a magicians wand which circumscribe human facility and prevent us from living the lives of man.

It is far better that we admitted a thousand devils to roam at large than that we permitted one such imposter and monster as Moses, Joshua, Samuel, and the Bible prophets, to come with the pretended word of God and have credit among us.

It is not because a part of the government is elective, that makes it less a despotism, if the persons so elected, possess afterwards, as a parliament, unlimited powers. Election, in this case, becomes separated from representation, and the candidates are candidates for despotism.