In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars.

There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.

Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all it combinations of skill and force, can do in his favor. In this partnership all men have equal rights; but not to equal things.

They [Americans] augur misgovernment at a distance and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.

Depend upon it that the lovers of freedom will be free.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.