Our business is to have great credit and to use it little.

Never did a prisoner, released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power.

Our minds were circumscribed within narrow limits by an habitual belief that it was our duty to be subordinate to the mother country.

preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish & improve the law for educating the common people.

The germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal judiciary; an irresponsible body, (for impeachment is scarcely a scare-crow) working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped from the States, and the government of all be consolidated into one.

[The people] are in truth the only legitimate proprietors of the soil and government.

Man is not made for the State but the State for man and it derives its just powers only from the consent of the governed.