One man with courage is a majority.

The foundation on which (our government is) built is the natural equality of man, the denial of every pre-eminence but that annexed to legal office, and particularly the denial of a pre-eminence by birth.

I pledge undying hostility to any government restrictions on the free minds of the people.

From the nature of things, every society must at all times possess within itself the sovereign powers of legislation.

The people cannot be all, and always well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves.

It is an insult to our citizens to question whether they are rational beings or not, and blasphemy against religion to suppose it cannot stand the test of truth and reason.