The laws of nature are the laws of God, whose authority can be superseded by no power on earth.

The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.

The epithets of parent and child have been long applied to Great Britain and her colonies, [but] we rarely see anything from your side of the water except the authoritative style of a master to a school-boy.

The laws of nature are the laws of God, whose authority can be superseded by no power on earth.

As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union.

Nothing so strongly impels a man to regard the interest of his constituents, as the certainty of returning to the general mass of the people, from whence he was taken, where he must participate in their burdens.

All men are by nature born equally free and independent.