The question then will be, whether a consolidated government can preserve the freedom and secure the rights of the people.

No point is of more importance than that the right of impeachment should be continued. Shall any man be above Justice?

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.

All men are by nature born equally free and independent.

We are now to rank among the nations of the world; but whether our Independence shall prove a blessing or a curse must depend upon our own wisdom or folly, virtue or wickedness.... Justice and virtue are the vital principles of republican government.

One of the first principles of decorative art is that in all manufactures ornament must hold a place subordinate to that of utility; and when, by its exuberance, ornament interferes with utility, it is misplaced and vulgar.