At the time we were funding our national debt, we heard much about "a public debt being a public blessing"; that the stock representing it was a creation of active capital for the aliment of commerce, manufactures and agriculture. This paradox was well adapted to the minds of believers in dreams.

Bind them down by the chains of the Constitution where they can do no mischief.

Establish the eternal truth that acquiescence under insult is not the way to escape war.

Resolved ... that it would be a dangerous delusion were a confidence in the men of our choice to silence our fears for the safety of our rights: that confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism - free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence.

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil and religious rights of man.

Let the eye of vigilance never be closed.