A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.

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.

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

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

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

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

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.