That peace, safety, and concord may be the portion of our native land, and be long enjoyed by our fellow-citizens, is the most ardent wish of my heart, and if I can be instrumental in procuring or preserving them, I shall think I have not lived in vain.

We must train and classify the whole of our male citizens, and make military instruction a regular part of collegiate education.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

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

The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights

Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.

The power of declaring war being with the Legislature, the Executive should do nothing necessarily committing them to decide for war in preference of non-intercourse, which will be preferred by a great many.