Though [the people] may acquiesce, they cannot approve what they do not understand.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day.

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.

When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.

Public offices were not made for private convenience.

The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.