If, to expose the fraud and imposition of monarchy… to promote universal peace, civilization, and commerce, and to break the chains of political superstition, and raise degraded man to his proper rank; if these things be libellous… let the name of libeller be engraved on my tomb

Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject.

What is called a republic, is not any particular form of government… it is naturally opposed to the word monarchy, which means arbitrary power

Let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarchy, that in America the law is King. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other