War ought to be no man's wish.

The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.

They may be all comprehended under three heads - 1st, Superstition; 2d, Power; 3d, the common interests of society, and the common rights of man.

Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind.

For freemen like brothers agree; With one spirit endured, they one friendship pursued, And their temple was Liberty Tree

A single legislature, on account of the superabundance of its power, and the uncontrolled rabidity of its execution, becomes as dangerous to the principles of liberty as that of a despotic monarch.

Man cannot make, or invent, or contrive principles; he can only discover them; and he ought to look through the discovery to the Author.