Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty?

Away with your president! We shall have a king... the army will salute him as monarch; your militia will leave you and assist in making him king and fight against you. And what have you to oppose this force? What will then become of you and your rights?

This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.

The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery

There is a Book worth all other books which were ever printed.

Are we at last brought to such an humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?

The American Revolution was the grand operation, which seemed to be assigned by the Deity to the men of this age in our country, over and above the common duties of life