I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It has only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican. But their virtuous feelings have been played on by some fact with more fiction; they have been the dupes of artful maneuvers, and made for a moment to be willing instruments in forging chains for themselves. But times and truth dissipated the delusion, and opened their eyes.

Hemp is one of the greatest, most important substances of our nation

Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty.

Instead of an aristocracy of wealth, of more harm and danger than benefit to society, to make an opening for the aristocracy of virtue and talent, which nature has wisely provided for the direction of the interests of society and scattered with equal hand through all its conditions, was deemed essential to a well-ordered republic.

There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.

Government is being founded on opinion, the opinion of the public, even when it is wrong, ought to be respected to a certain degree.