the boys of the rising generation are to be the men of the next, and the sole guardians of the principles we deliver over to them.

Man was destined for society. His morality therefore was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of right and wrong merely relative to this. This sense is as much a part of his nature as the sense of hearing, seeing, feeling; it is the true foundation of morality... The moral sense, or conscience, is as much a part of man as his leg or arm. It is given to all human beings in a stronger or weaker degree, as force of members is given them in a greater or less degree. It may be strengthened by exercise, as may any particular limb of the body.

Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction.

[O]ur rules can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God.

Beer, if drank with moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit, and promotes health.

It is a principle that the right to a thing gives a right to the means without which it could not be used, that is to say, that the means follow their end.

You have lived longer than I have and perhaps may have formed a different judgment on better grounds; but my observations do not enable me to say I think integrity the characteristic of wealth. In general I believe the decisions of the people, in a body, will be more honest and more disinterested than those of wealthy men.