"I have traveled a good deal in Concord; and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to me to be doing penance in a thousand remarkable ways."

"I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes."

"I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion."

"Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then?"

"I do not wish to be regarded as a member of any society which I have not joined."