If America wants concessions, she must fight for them. We must purchase our power with our blood.

From several of the Indian tribes inhabiting the country bordering on Lake Erie purchases have been made of lands on conditions very favorable to the United States, and, as it is presumed, not less so to the tribes themselves.

The payments which have been made into the Treasury show the very productive state of the public revenue.

National honor is national property of the highest value.

The right of self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals.

We must support our rights or lose our character, and with it, perhaps, our liberties.

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.