who contributed a series of letters to the Public Advertiser
, from 21 January 1769 to 21 January 1772. The signature had been already used, apparently by him, in a letter of 21 November 1768. These and numerous other personal letters were not included in his Letters of Junius
collection, published in 1772.
The name was chosen in all probability because the same author had already signed Lucius and Brutus, and wished to exhaust the name of Lucius Junius Brutus
, the Roman
patriot
.
The liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights of an Englishman.
The submission of free people to the executive authority of government, is no more than a compliance with laws which they themselves have enacted.
Loyalty, in the heart and understanding of an englishman, is a rational attachment to the guardian of the laws.
I believe there is yet a spirit of resistance in this country, which will not submit to be oppressed; but I am sure there is a fund of good sense in this country, which cannot be deceived.
We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire those rights, which they have delivered to our care: we owe it to our posterity, not to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed.
When the constitution is openly invaded, when the first original right of the people, from which all laws derive their authority, is directly attacked, inferior grievances naturally lose their force, and are suffered to pass by without punishment or observation.
There is a moment of difficulty and danger at which flattery and falsehood can no longer deceive, and simplicity itself can no longer be misled.
They [the Americans] equally detest the pageantry of a king, and the supercilious hypocrisy of a bishop.
There is a holy mistaken zeal in politics as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.
The least considerable man among us has an interest equal to the proudest nobleman, in the laws and constitution of his country, and is equally called upon to make a generous contribution in support of them — whether it be the heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, or the hand to execute.