The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness.

To Englishmen, life is a topic, not an activity.

Times change, and we change with them.

The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.

The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators.

We admit of no government by divine right, believing that so far as power is concerned the Beneficent Creator has made no distinction amongst men; that all are upon an equality, and that the only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.