Music furnishes a delightful recreation for the hours of respite from the cares of the day, and lasts us through life.

The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.

Never did a prisoner, released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power.

Trial by jury is part of the bright constellation which leads to peace, liberty and safety.

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

May it be to the world... to assume the blessings and security of self-government.

It is between fifty and sixty years since I read it (i.e. the Book of Revelations), and I then considered it merely the ravings of a maniac, no more worthy nor capable of explanation than the incoherence of our own nightly dreams.