We need a revolution every 20 years just to keep government honest.

The example of changing a constitution by assembling the wise men of the state, instead of assembling armies, will be worth as much to the world as the former examples we had give them. The constitution, too, which was the result of our deliberation, is unquestionably the wisest ever yet presented to men.

Hemp is one of the greatest, most important substances of our nation

We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere arbitrary rules of conduct, founded in force, and not in conscience.

One man with courage is a majority.

Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.

The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.