From the errors of other nations, let us learn wisdom.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

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

One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise, she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass for a lion.

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

Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins ... Society is in every state a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

The times that tried men's souls are over-and the greatest and completest revolution the world ever knew, gloriously and happily accomplished.