The liberties of a people depend on their own constant attention to its preservation.

The liberties of a people depend on their own constant attention to its preservation.

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

Is one of the fairest portions of the globe to remain in a state of nature, the haunt of a few wretched savages, when it seems destined by the Creator to give support to a large population and to be the seat of civilization?

I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

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

Conscience, that vicegerent of God in the human heart, whose "still small voice" the loudest revelry cannot drown.