As Nations Can Not Be

I Begin To Grow Heartily Tired Of The Etiquette And Nonsense So Fashionable In This City.

I Determined To Spend The Remainder Of My Days In Privacy And Retirement With My Children, From Whose Society Alone I Cou'd Expect Comfort.

All Power Is Vested In, And Consequently Derived From, The People; [...] Magistrates Are Their Trustees And Servants, And At All Times Amenable To Them.

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.

When The Resolution Of Enslaving America Was Formed In Great Britain, The British Parliament Was Advised By An Artful Man [sir William Keith], Who Was Governor Of Pennsylvania, To Disarm The People. That It Was The Best And Most Effectual Way To Enslave Them. But That They Should Not Do It Openly; But To Weaken Them And Let Them Sink Gradually, By Totally Disusing And Neglecting The Militia.