I believe we may lessen the danger of buying and selling votes, by making the number of voters too great for any means of purchase. I may further say that I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have been called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists.

Still less, let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own. The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time: the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.

A pirate spreading misery and ruin over the face of the ocean

It will take a thousand years for the frontier to reach the Pacific

Music furnishes a delightful recreation for the hours of respite from the cares of the day, and lasts us through life.

I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.