Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.

Those who wish to be ignorant and free, believe in something that never was and never shall be.

It is a principle that the right to a thing gives a right to the means without which it could not be used, that is to say, that the means follow their end.

When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.

I do most anxiously wish to see the highest degrees of education given to the higher degrees of genius and to all degrees of it, so much as may enable them to read and understand what is going on in the world and to keep their part of it going on right; for nothing can keep it right but their own vigilant and distrustful superintendence.

Take painsto write a neat round, plain hand, and you will find it a great convenience through life to write a small and compact hand as well as a fair and legible one.

Our Constitution... has not left the religion of its citizens under the power of its public functionaries, were it possible that any of these should consider a conquest over the conscience of men either attainable or applicable to any desirable purpose.