A large portion of our citizens, who will not believe, even on the evidence of facts, that any public evils exist, or are impending. They deride the apprehensions of those who foresee, that licentiousness will prove, as it ever has proved, fatal to liberty.

No man can be a sound lawyer in this land who is not well read in the ethics of Moses and the virtues of Jesus.

I have heard it remarked that men are not to be reasoned out of an opinion they have not reasoned themselves into.

The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality.

I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.

We are, heart and soul, friends to the freedom of the press...It is a precious pest, and a necessary mischief, and there would be no liberty without it.