I love to see honest and honorable men at the helm, men who will not bend their politics to their purses, nor pursue measures by which they may profit, and then profit by their measures.

All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.

All men are created equal.

We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities. Unmeddling with the affairs of other nations, we had hoped that our distance and our dispositions would have left us free, in the example and indulgence of peace with all the world.

Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to; convinced that on their good sense we may rely with most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty.

The persons and property of our citizens are entitled to the protection of our government in all places where they may lawfully go.