The earth was given to mankind to support the greatest number of which it is capable, and no tribe or people have a right to withhold from the wants of others more than is necessary for their own support and comfort.

Let us by wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.

To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.

By the last returns to the Department of War the militia force of the several States may be estimated at 800,000 men - infantry, artillery, and cavalry.

Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.

Of the liberty of conscience in matters of religious faith, of speech and of the press; of the trial by jury of the vicinage in civil and criminal cases; of the benefit of the writ of habeas corpus; of the right to keep and bear arms.... If these rights are well defined, and secured against encroachment, it is impossible that government should ever degenerate into tyranny.

The emigrants although of different parties and different religious sects all flew from persecution in pursuit of liberty.