On the evening of December 25, General Washington in a most severe season crossed the Delaware with a part of his army, then reduced to less than 2000 men in the whole.

Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.

I am more and more convinced, of the propensity in human nature to tyranize over their fellow men.

Public emergencies may require the hand of severity to fall heavily on those who are not personally guilty, but compassion prompts, and ever urges to milder methods

The origin of all power is in the people, and they have an incontestable right to check the creatures of their own creation.

The rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments.

The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.