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

In America, no other distinction between man and man had ever been known but that of persons in office exercising powers by authority of the laws, and private individuals. Among these last, the poorest laborer stood on equal ground with the wealthiest millionaire, and generally on a more favored one whenever their rights seem to jar.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever: that, considering numbers, nature, and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible events: that it may become probable by supernatural interference! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest.

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

It is every Americans' right and obligation to read and interpret the Constitution for himself.

Independence can be trusted nowhere but with the people in mass. They are inherently independent of all but moral law.

Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission.