The power under the Constitution will always be in the people. It is entrusted for certain defined purposes, and for a certain limited period, to representatives of their own choosing; and whenever it is executed contrary to their interest, or not agreeable to their wishes, their servants can, and undoubtedly will, be recalled.

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.

I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love.

Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?

If you can't send money, send tobacco.

Precedents are dangerous things; let the rein of government then be braced and held with a steady hand.

In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars.