Oliver Ellsworth Quotes

The Thirteen States are Thirteen Sovereign bodies.

A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry.

A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.

Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.

It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national regulation of trade.

The sole purpose and effect of it is to exclude persecution and to secure the important right of religious liberty.