Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.

An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among general bodies of magistracy, as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others.

The genius of architecture seems to have shed its maledictions over this land.

Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion.

The present generation has the same right of self-government which the past one has exercised for itself.

Stock dealers and banking companies, by the aid of a paper system, are enriching themselves to the ruin of our country, and swaying the government by their possession of the printing presses, which their wealth commands and by any other means, not always honorable to the character of our countrymen.

Where thought is free in its range, we need never fear to hazard what is good in itself.