Every Honest Man Will Suppose Honest Acts

The Sentiments Of Men Are Known Not Only By What They Receive, But What They Reject Also.

Truth Between Candid Minds Can Never Do Harm.

To Unequal Privileges Among Members Of The Same Society The Spirit Of Our Nation Is, With One Accord, Adverse.

One Loves To Possess Arms, Though They Hope Never To Have Occasion For Them.

On The Subject Of The History Of The American Revolution, You Ask Who Shall Write It? Who Can Write It? And Who Will Ever Be Able To Write It? Nobody, Except Merely Its External Facts... All Its Councils, Designs And Discussions Having Been Conducted By Congress [behind] Closed Doors - And No Members, As Far As I Know, Having Even Made Notes Of Them. These, Which Are The Life And Soul Of History, Must Forever Be Unknown.