Public Calamity Is A Mighty Leveller.

The True Danger Is When Liberty Is Nibbled Away, For Expedience, And By Parts.

It Looks To Me To Be Narrow And Pedantic To Apply The Ordinary Ideas Of Criminal Justice To This Great Public Contest. I Do Not Know The Method Of Drawing Up An Indictment Against A Whole People.

Reflect How You Are To Govern A People Who Think They Ought To Be Free, And Think They Are Not. Your Scheme Yields No Revenue; It Yields Nothing But Discontent, Disorder, Disobedience; And Such Is The State Of America, That After Wading Through Up To Your Eyes In Blood, You Could Only End Up Where You Begun; That Is, To Tax Where No Revenue Is To Be Found... All Is Confusion Beyond It.

Man Is By His Constitution A Religious Animal.

Somebody Has Said, That A King May Make A Nobleman But He Cannot Make A Gentleman.