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

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

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

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

All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess.

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.

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