"A French bastard landing with an armed Banditti and establishing himself king of England against the consent of the natives, is in plain terms a very paltry rascally original. It certainly hath no div…"

"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one."

"Ignorance is of a peculiar nature; once dispelled, it is impossible to reestablish it."

"The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected."

"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."