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

Some other natural rights... [have] not yet entered into any declaration of rights.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

It behooves our citizens to be on their guard, to be firm in their principles, and full of confidence in themselves. We are able to preserve our self-government if we will but think so.

[A]lthough a republican government is slow to move, yet when once in motion, its momentum becomes irresistible.

Taxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory.

If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.