I have a right to nothing which another has a right to take away.

I believe the states can best govern our home concerns, and the general government our foreign ones.

The several states composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government

The rational and peaceable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people.

The States should be watchful to note every material usurpation on their rights; to denounce them as they occur in the most peremptory terms; to protest against them as wrongs to which our present submission shall be considered, not as acknowledgments or precedents of rights, but as a temporary yielding to the lesser evil, until their accumulation shall overweigh that of separation.

The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty ... students perusal of the sacred volume will make us better citizens.

You will perceive by my preaching that I am growing old: it is the privilege of years, and I am sure you will pardon it from the purity of it's motives.