We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.

The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the states are independent as to everything within themselves and united as to everything respecting foreign nations. Let the general government be reduced to foreign concerns only.

Considering the great importance to the public liberty of the freedom of the press, and the difficulty of submitting it to very precise rules, the laws have thought it less mischievous to give greater scope to its freedom than to the restraint of it.

The dominion which the banking institutions have obtained over the minds of our citizens...must be broken, or it will break us.

The genius of architecture seems to have shed its maledictions over this land.

Resisting tyranny is obeying God

Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.