The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty ... students perusal of the sacred volume will make us better citizens.

In a government bottomed on the will of all, the... liberty of every individual citizen becomes interesting to all.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle grateful that they are not worse rather than the rough handle, bitter that they are not better.

There are two amendments only which I am anxious for: 1. A bill of rights, which it is so much the interest of all to have that I conceive it must be yielded...2. The restoring of the principle of necessary rotation, particularly to the Senate and Presidency, but most of all to the last.

If the measures which have been pursued are approved by the majority, it is the duty of the minority to acquiesce and conform.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

The several states composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government