It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.

A government on the principles on which constitutional governments arising out of society are established, cannot have the right of altering itself. If it had, it would be arbitrary. It might make itself what it pleased; and wherever such a right is set up, it shows there is no constitution.

It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on.

For freemen like brothers agree; With one spirit endured, they one friendship pursued, And their temple was Liberty Tree

Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies.

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

Men should not petition for rights, but take them