Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils of misgovernment.
Dependence begets subservience and paves the way for tyranny.
It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate.
The Christian religion is the best religion that has ever been given to man
[O]ur rules can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God.
I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural.