"The love of lucre, and not the love of liberty, is the motive of their conduct."

"Old establishments are tried by their effects. If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the government under which they are found to be good."

"The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts."

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."

"Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are s…"