No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.

Where thought is free in its range, we need never fear to hazard what is good in itself.

When we come to the moral principles on which the government is to be administered, we come to what is proper for all conditions of society. Liberty, truth, probity, honor, are declared to be the four cardinal principles of society. I believe that morality, compassion, generosity, are innate elements of the human constitution; that there exists a right independent of force.

Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead.

There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him.

I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.