The oppressed should rebel, and they will continue to rebel and raise disturbance until their civil rights are fully restored to them and all partial distinctions, exlusions, and incapacitations are removed.

I apprehend... that the total abandonment of the principle of rotation in the offices of President and Senator will end in abuse.

The purse of the people is the real seat of sensibility. Let it be drawn upon largely, and they will then listen to truths which could not excite them through any other organ.

If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.

My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses.

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

We exist, and are quoted, as standing proofs that a government, so modeled as to rest continually on the will of the whole society, is a practicable government.