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.

[Oppose] with manly firmness [any] invasions on the rights of the people.

Experience has proved to us that a dollar of silver disappears for every dollar of paper emitted.

Revenue on the consumption of foreign articles is paid cheerfully by those who can afford to add foreign luxuries to domestic comforts.

It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood.

The darker the berry, the sweeter the juice.

ONLY a government that is AFRAID of its citizens tries to control them.