It's only merit was in being the first publication which carried the claim of our rights their whole length, and asserted that there was no rightful link of connection between us and England but that of being under the same king.

[The People] are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty.

A judiciary independent of a king or executive alone, is a good thing; but independence of the will of the nation is a solecism, at least in a republican government.

Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise, in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives. For it is in our lives, and not from our works, that our religion must be read.

The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.

The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.