It is every Americans' right and obligation to read and interpret the Constitution for himself.

Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them.

Whiskey claims to itself alone the exclusive office of sot-making.

I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our fathers, as Israel of old, from their native land and planted them in a country flowing with all the necessaries of comforts of life.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them.

While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil.

I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural.