The States should be watchful to note every material usurpation on their rights; to denounce them as they occur in the most peremptory terms; to protest against them as wrongs to which our present submission shall be considered, not as acknowledgments or precedents of rights, but as a temporary yielding to the lesser evil, until their accumulation shall overweigh that of separation.

Were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask respecting a candidate would be, Does he use ardent spirits?

Let the eye of vigilance never be closed.

It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other.

It is in the love of one's family only that heartfelt happiness is known.

I join you therefore in branding as cowardly the idea that the human mind is incapable of further advances.

The further the departure from direct and constant control by the citizens, the less has the government of the ingredient of republicanism.