The genius of the people will ill brook the inquisitive and peremptory spirit of excise laws.

No character, however upright, is a match for constantly reiterated attacks, however false.

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government.

The people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government and to reform, alter, or totally change the same when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it.

[I]n framing a Government for a nation we ought, in those provisions which are designed to be permanent, to calculate not on temporary, but on permanent causes of expence.

What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws.