The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It had only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican.

In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.

My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses.

Never was so much false arithmetic employed on any subject, as that which has been employed to persuade nations that it is in their interest to go to war.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

I am entirely persuaded that the agitations of the public mind advance its powers, and that at every vibration between the points of liberty and despotism, something will be gained for the former. As men become better informed, their rulers must respect them the more.

While the principles of our Constitution give just latitude to inquiry, every citizen faithful to it will deem embodied expressions of discontent and open outrages of law and patriotism as dishonorable as they are injurious