The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression.

I wish to see this beverage become common instead of the whiskey which kills sone-third of our citizens and ruins their families.

No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage

‎We must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor and in our amusements...if we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.

The ocean ... like the air, is the common birth-right of mankind.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

We think, in America, that it is necessary to introduce the people into every department of government, as far as they are capable of exercising it, and that this is the only way to ensure a long continued and honest administration of its powers.