Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them.

Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself.

To take a single step beyond the text would be to take possession of a boundless field of power.

The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties.

Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers (adminstrators) too plainly proves a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing us to slavery.

Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve it in that, will require unremitting vigilance.

Error is to be pitied and pardoned: it is the weakness of human nature. But vice is a foul blemish, not pardonable in any character.