I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with Measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common Policy and Justice.
There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint.
Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds.
I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.
I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city.
As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union.
