Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

Our ancient laws expressly declare that those who are but delegates themselves shall not delegate to others powers which require judgment and integrity in their exercise.

The first object of human association [is] the full improvement of their condition.

I have not observed mens honesty to increase with their riches.

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

not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent, and to justify ourselves in the independent stand we are compelled to take.

My most earnest wish is to see the republican element of popular control pushed to the maximum of its practicable exercise. I shall then believe that our government may be pure and perpetual.