It is surely time for men to think for themselves, and to throw off the authority of names so artificially magnified.

Trial by jury is part of that bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.

The execution of the laws is more important than the making of them.

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate.

The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys.

Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself.

Our people shall be free