If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.

An informed citizenry is at the heart of a dynamic democracy.

We never repent of having eaten too little.

He who is permitted by law to have no property of his own, can with difficulty conceive that property is founded in anything but force.

When two parties make a compact, there results to each a power of compelling the other to execute it.

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

No other depositories of power [but the people themselves] have ever yet been found, which did not end in converting to their own profit the earnings of those committed to their charge.