“I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom and with whom I desired only to live; yet the dreadful apprehensions I have of what is coming upon this land may help to make me submissive to this providence, though more bitter.”
“The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England only seemed to have, - three departments of government.”