Occupation: Statesman Birth: December 11, 1725 Death: October 7, 1792
A well-regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defense of a free state; that standin….
Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of heaven on a Country. As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next….
When the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British parliament was advised by an artful man [Sir William Keith], who wa….
Nothing so strongly impels a man to regard the interest of his constituents, as the certainty of returning to the general mass of the people, from wh….