There is a moment of difficulty and danger at which flattery and falsehood can no longer deceive, and simplicity itself can no longer be misled.

When the constitution is openly invaded, when the first original right of the people, from which all laws derive their authority, is directly attacked, inferio…

They [the Americans] equally detest the pageantry of a king, and the supercilious hypocrisy of a bishop.

We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire those rights, which they have delivered to our care: we owe it to our posterity, not to suffer their dearest inhe…

Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long word where a short one will do. If it is possib…

To see a thing uncoloured by one's own personal preferences and desires is to see it in its own pristine simplicity.

The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clea…