It is while we are young that the habit of industry is formed. If not then, it never is afterwards. The fortune of our lives therefore depends on employing well the short period of our youth.

The juries are our judges of all fact, and of law when they choose it.

Still less let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

Every society has a right to fix the fundamental principles of its association, and to say to all individuals, that if they contemplate pursuits beyond the limits of these principles and involving dangers which the society chooses to avoid, they must go somewhere else for their exercise; that we want no citizens, and still less ephemeral and pseudo-citizens, on such terms. We may exclude them from our territory, as we do persons infected with disease.

In Europe the object is to make the most of their land, labour being abundant: here it is to make the most of our labour, land being abundant.

Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power.