All men can understand what representation is; and that it must necessarily include a variety of knowledge and talents.

Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous consciousness of honor.

Taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject.

Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.