Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace.

Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

The establishment of the chaplainship to Congress is a palpable violation of ... constitutional principles.

It will be remembered, that a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles is solemnly enjoined by most of the state constitutions, and particularly by our own, as a necessary safeguard against the danger of degeneracy, to which republics are liable, as well as other governments, though in a less degree than others.

That diabolical Hell conceived principle of persecution rages amoung some and to their eternal Infamy the Clergy can furnish their Quota of Imps for such business.