"It [hereditary succession] appears under all the various characters of childhood, decrepitude, dotage, a thing at nurse, in leading-strings, or in crutches. It reverses the wholesome order of nature. …"

"The voice of the people is the voice of God."

"The greatest part of the world are born to poverty and wretchedness, not for want of abilities in themselves, but from the want of opportunities to exert them."

"The rich, by consuming the produce of the labour of the poor, in fact, employ them, and give them a maintenance."

"The true and proper remedy is to make the great mass of society, of all classes, their own legislators, by giving them a direct and equal representation."