Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from...the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence.

The freest government, if it could exist, would not be long acceptable, if the tendency of the laws were to create a rapid accumulation of property in a few hands, and to render the great mass of the population dependent and penniless.

If God and His Word are not known and received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendency; if the evangelical volume does not reach every hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and licentious literature will.

We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.

How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.

The man is free who is protected from injury.

The hand that destroys the Constitution rends our Union asunder forever.