That these are our grievances which we have thus laid before his majesty, with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes a free people claiming their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.

My principle is to do whatever is right, and leave consequences to him who has the disposal of them.

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens . . . There has never been a moment of my life in which I should have relinquished for it the enjoyments of my family, my farm, my friends and books.

Men of quality are not threatened by women of equality

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

Hemp is one of the greatest, most important substances of our nation

I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man.