[The People] are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty.

What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.

The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.

Take things always by their smooth handle.

The God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?

I may err in my measures, but never shall deflect from the intention to fortify the public liberty by every possible means, and to put it out of the power of the few to riot on the labors of the many.

Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.