It has always been a most arduous task to govern distant provinces,…

I look upon North America as the only great nursery of freemen left on the face of the earth.

The idea of governing provinces and colonies by force is visionary and chimerical. The experiment has often been tried, and it has never succeeded. It ends infallibly in the ruin of one country or the other.

The true art of government consists in not governing too much.

The people are certainly the best judges whether they are well governed; and the Crown can have no rights inconsistent with the happiness of the people.

Arbitrary taxation is plunder authorized by law.

The scene was changed. It was a bark that slowly held its way, And o'er its lee the coast of France in the light of evening lay; And on its deck a lady sat, who gazed with tearful eyes Upon the fast receding hills that dim and distant rise.