How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren, talents equal to those of the other colors of men, and that the appearance of a want of them is owing merely to the degraded condition of their existence, both in Africa & America.

No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon would be as short in that case as in any other, and its moments of ecstasy would be ransomed by years of torment and hatred.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us.

There is not a single crowned head in Europe whose talents or merit would entitle him to be elected a vestryman by the people of any parish in America.

I shall rejoin myself to my native country, with new attachments, and with exaggerated esteem for its advantages; for though there is less wealth there, there is more freedom, more ease, and less misery.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.