Is it to be expected that the Southern States will deliver themselves bound hand and foot to the Eastern States? A few rich merchants in Philadelphia, Boston, and New York could thereby monopolise the staples of the Southern States and reduce their value.

I ask you sir, who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people.

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

To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.

In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people.

The [President's] Nomination, of Course, brings the Subject fully under the Consideration of the Senate; who have then a Right to decide upon its Propriety or Impropriety.

The laws of nature are the laws of God, whose authority can be superseded by no power on earth.