Resisting tyranny is obeying God

the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

The information of the people at large can alone make them the safe as they are the sole depositary of our political and religious freedom.

No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence.

The mass of our citizens may be divided into two classes -- the laboring and the learned. The laboring will need the first grade of education to qualify them for their pursuits and duties; the learned will need it as a foundation for further acquirements.

To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical...A wise and frugal government...shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned...Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare but only those specifically enumerated...Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass through so many new hands?

The chief purpose of government is to protect life. Abandon that and you have abandoned all.