A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

Government has no right to make itself a party in any debates respecting the principles or mode of forming or of changing, constitutions. It is not for the benefit of those who exercise the powers of government, that constitutions, and the governments issuing from them, are established.

Government is best which governs least

There is something absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.

Whatever has a tendency to promote the civil intercourse of nations by an exchange of benefits is a subject as worthy of philosophy as of politics.

If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.

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