Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

Every society has a right to fix the fundamental principles of its association, and to say to all individuals, that if they contemplate pursuits beyond the limits of these principles and involving dangers which the society chooses to avoid, they must go somewhere else for their exercise; that we want no citizens, and still less ephemeral and pseudo-citizens, on such terms. We may exclude them from our territory, as we do persons infected with disease.

Government is being founded on opinion, the opinion of the public, even when it is wrong, ought to be respected to a certain degree.

[Oppose] with manly firmness [any] invasions on the rights of the people.

Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.

The same political parties which now agitiate the US have existed through all time. And in fact the terms of whig and tory belong to natural as well as to civil history. They denote the temper and constitution and mind of different individuals.

The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us.