Edmund Burke: “Of this great truth I think there can be little doubt, after all that has appeared in this House.”

I would not exclude alteration neither; but even when I changed, it should be to preserve.

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

Not being illuminated with the light of which the gentlemen of France tell us they have got so abundant a share, they acted under a strong impression of the ignorance and fallibility of mankind.

They come from one who has been no tool of power, no flatterer of greatness, and who in his last acts does not wish to belie the tenor of his life.