The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.

Treason is the highest crime of a civil nature of which a man can be guilty.

In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.

The principles of all genuine liberty, and of wise laws and administrations are to be drawn from the Bible and sustained by its authority. The man therefore who weakens or destroys the divine authority of that book may be assessory to all the public disorders which society is doomed to suffer.

In the formation of our constitution the wisdom of all ages is collected-the legislators of antiquity are consulted, as well as the opinions and interests of the millions who are concerned. It short, it is an empire of reason.

Why not include a provision that everybody shall, in good weather, hunt on his own land and catch fish in rivers that are public property and that Congress shall never restrain any inhabitant of America from eating and drinking, at seasonable times, or prevent his lying on his left side, in a long winter's night, or even on his back, when he is fatigued by lying on his right.

Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe.