Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen, people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.

In a virtuous government, and more especially in times like these, public offices are what they should be - burdens to those appointed to them which it would be wrong to decline, though foreseen to bring them intense labor and great private loss.

...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.

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

Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.