The ocean ... like the air, is the common birth-right of mankind.

It is an encouraging observation that no good measure was ever proposed which, if duly pursued, failed to prevail in the end.

[The purpose of a written constitution is] to bind up the several branches of government by certain laws, which, when they transgress, their acts shall become nullities; to render unnecessary an appeal to the people, or in other words a rebellion, on every infraction of their rights, on the peril that their acquiescence shall be construed into an intention to surrender those rights.

We must meet our duty and convince the world that we are just friends and brave enemies.

The failure of one thing is repaired by the success of another.

It will take a thousand years for the frontier to reach the Pacific

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