"I would rather sleep in the same bed with a toad than with a Frenchman."

"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants."

"The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered."

"Public calamity is a mighty leveller."

"The effect of liberty to individuals is, that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations."