I am committed against every thing which in my judgment, may weaken, endanger, or destroy (the Constitution) ... and especially against all extension of Executive power; and I am committed against any attempt to rule the free people of this country by the power and the patronage of the Government itself.

Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

If the true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled, it will burn.

The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.

Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades; shoe makers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers a monster watch, and the dentist hangs out a gold tooth; but up in the Mountains of New Hampshire, God Almighty has hung out a sign to show that there He makes men.

We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.