The juries are our judges of all fact, and of law when they choose it.

He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, [then and only then will truth]prevail over fanaticism.

I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations.

The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the states are independent as to everything within themselves and united as to everything respecting foreign nations. Let the general government be reduced to foreign concerns only.

Never use one word when two will do.

Free men do not ask permission to bear arms