It must be observed that our revenues are raised almost wholly on imported goods.

The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.

A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.

Every man, and every body of men on earth, possesses the right of self-government. They receive it with their being from the hand of nature. Individuals exercise it by their single will; collections of men by that of their majority; for the law of the majority is the natural law of every society of men.

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It had only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican.

Difference of opinion is helpful in religion.