I don't want them to kill no hog . . . . I want a man to go to that chair, on his own two feet.

While the principles of our Constitution give just latitude to inquiry, every citizen faithful to it will deem embodied expressions of discontent and open outrages of law and patriotism as dishonorable as they are injurious

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

By a declaration of rights, I mean one which shall stipulate freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of commerce against monopolies, trial by juries in all cases, no suspensions of the habeas corpus, no standing armies. These are fetters against doing evil which no honest government should decline.

It is to them I look, to the rising generation, and not to the one now in power, for these great reformations i.e., emancipation of slaves and settlement of the Virginia constitution on a firmer and more permanent basis.