To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves, in all cases to which they think themselves competent, or they may act by representatives, freely and equally chosen; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed; that they are entitled to freedom of person, freedom of religion, freedom of property, and freedom of the press.

The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American.

All things here appear to me to trudge on in one and the same round: we rise in the morning that we may eat breakfast, dinner andsupper and to bed again that we may get up the next morning and do the same: so that you never saw two peas more alike than our yesterday and to-day.

I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.

In matters of principle, stand like a rock.

A pirate spreading misery and ruin over the face of the ocean