The general desire of men to live by their heads rather than their hands, and the strong allurements of great cities to those who have any turn for dissipation, threaten to make them here, as in Europe, the sinks of voluntary misery.

The true fountains of evidence [are] the head and heart of every rational and honest man. It is there nature has written her moral laws, and where every man may read them for himself.

Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God.

I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

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

The contest is not between us and them, but between good and evil, and if those who would fight evil adopt the ways of evil, evil wins.