"The United States seems destined by Providence to plague America with miseries in the name of freedom."

"I blush to say it: Independence is the only benefit we have acquired, at the expense of everything else."

"God grant that a single tyrant may not bring an entire republic to ruin."

"The first duty of a government is to protect its citizens."

"If a man does not use his reason, he is a brute. If he does not use his will, he is a slave."