The more men have to lose, the less willing are they to venture.

A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is power without a right. All power exercised over a nation, must have some beginning. It must be either delegated, or assumed. There are not other sources. All delegated power is trust, and all assumed power is usurpation. Time does not alter the nature and quality of either.

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.

O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia, and Africa, have long expelled her. Europe regards her like a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart. O! receive the fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind.

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.

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

What is called a republic, is not any particular form of government ... it is naturally opposed to the word monarchy, which means arbitrary power.