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.

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

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.

Times change, and we change with them.