"The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act."

"It is better to suffer a little evil than to do a great deal of good in a wrong way."

"The greatest characters the world has known, have rose on the ruins of systems."

"Kings succeed each other, not as rationals, but as animals. It signifies not what their mental or moral characters are."

"It is not in the power of Britain or of Europe to conquer America, if she do not conquer herself by delay and disunion."