A stranger would think that the people of the United States had no other occupation than electioneering.

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.

We know the redemption must come.

The art of making love, muffled up in furs, in the open air, with the thermometer at Zero, is a Yankee invention.

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made for a moral and religious people... it is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement; battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can learn, the landlord does not intend to repair.

Civil liberty can be established on no foundation of human reason which will not at the same time demonstrate the right of religious freedom.