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

I do not propose to be buried until I am dead.

If the States were not left to leave the Union when their rights were interfered with, the government would have been National, but the Convention refused to baptize it by that name.

America has furnished to the world the character of Washington. And if our American institutions had done nothing else, that alone would have entitled them to the respect of mankind.

It is, Sir, as I have said, a small College, And yet, there are those who love it.

It is no monopoly in any other sense than as a man's own house is a monopoly. But a man's right to his own invention is a very different matter. It is no more a monopoly for him to possess that, than to possess his own homestead .

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.