The constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruption's of time and party, its members would become despots.

Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched?

Among the most inestimable of our blessings is that ... of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most agreeable to His will; a liberty deemed in other countries incompatible with good government and yet proved by our experience to be its best support.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves.

ours are the only farmers who can read Homer

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

The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people.