Thomas Paine: “We mean now to take you seriously up upon your own ground and principle, and as you do, so shall you be done by.”

An hereditary governor is as inconsistent as an hereditary author.

Burke's Book is easily accounted for.--When a man in a wrong cause attempts to steer his course by anything else than some polar truth or principle, he is sure to be lost.

A constitution is not a thing in name only, but in fact.

When it becomes necessary to do anything, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it.