I am never tempted to pray but when a warm feeling for my friends comes athwart my heart.

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

Never put off your massage until tomorrow if you can get it today.

We love and we value peace; we know its blessings from experience. We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities.

Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils of misgovernment.

The banks themselves were doing business on capitals three-fourths of which were fictitious. This fictitious capital... is now to be lost, and to fall on somebody; it must take on those who have property to meet it, and probably on the less cautious part, who, not aware of the impending catastrophe, have suffered themselves to contract, or to be in debt, and must now sacrifice their property of a value many times the amount of the debt. We have been truly sowing the wind, and are now reaping the whirlwind.

Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice.