No person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six.

The construction applied . . . to those parts of the Constitution of the United States which delegate Congress a power . . . ought not to be construed as themselves to give unlimited powers, nor a part to be so taken as to destroy the whole residue of that instrument.

Taste cannot be controlled by law. We must resist at all costs any attempt to regulate our individual freedoms and to legislate our personal moralities.

The genius of architecture seems to have shed its maledictions over this land.

The most effective means of preventing tyranny is to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, and more especially to give them knowledge of those facts.

...in war, they will kill some of us; we shall destroy all of them

Taxes should be proportioned to what may be annually spared by the individual.