It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.

Stock dealers and banking companies, by the aid of a paper system, are enriching themselves to the ruin of our country, and swaying the government by their possession of the printing presses, which their wealth commands and by any other means, not always honorable to the character of our countrymen.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.

Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state'... is absolutely essential in a free society.

To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father's has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association-the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.

It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.