Light and liberty go together.

It is Mortifying to suppose it possible that a people able and zealous to contend with the Enemy should be reduced to fold their Arms for want of the means of defence; yet no resources that we know of, ensure us against this event.

What an augmentation of the field for jobbing, speculating, plundering, office-building and office-hunting would be produced by an assumption of all the state powers into the hands of the general government.

If the book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let us freely hear both sides, if we choose.

We often repent of what we have said, but never, never, of that which we have not.

God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.

I prefer to be remembered for what I have done for others, not what others have done for me.