Liberty, the greatest of all earthly blessings - give us that precious jewel and you may take everything else!

I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil.

I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.

It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains.

O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if, to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people! Your arms, wherewith you could defend yourselves, are gone.

Bad men cannot make good citizens.

....I am sure that the dangers of this system (the Federal Constitution) are real, when those who have no similar interest with the people of this country (the South) are to legislate for us - when our dearest rights are to be left, in the hands of those, whose advantage it will be to infringe them.