... a thirst for power is the natural disease of monarchy.

Money, when considered as the fruit of many years' industry, as the reward of labor, sweat and toil, as the widow's dowry and children's portion, and as the means of procuring the necessaries and alleviating the afflictions of life, and making old age a scene of rest, has something in it sacred that is not to be sported with, or trusted to the airy bubble of paper currency.

I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.

Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches; and tho' avarice will preserve a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.

Ye that dare oppose, not only tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth!

We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

Titles do not count with posterity.