Edmund Burke: “If you lie still, you are considered as an accomplice in the measures in which you silently acquiesce.”

It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

Our people will find employment enough for a truly patriotic, free, and independent spirit, in guarding what they possess from violation.

They have not more notes in their song than the cuckoo; though, far from the softness of that harbinger of summer and plenty, their voice is as harsh and as ominous as that of the raven.

This is the result of all the delusions held out to engage a miserable people in rebellion, murder, and sacrilege, and to make them prompt and zealous instruments in the ruin of their country!