Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry or that of his fathers.

If the body be feeble, the mind will not be strong.

Experience has taught me that manufacturers are now as necessary to our independence as to our comfort.

Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Choice by the people themselves is not generally distinguished for its wisdom.

Eternal Vigilance is the price of democracy.