The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.

From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?

The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.

War ought to be no man's wish.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.

A constitution, therefore, is to a government what the laws made afterwards by that government are to a court of judicature. The court of judicature does not make the laws, neither can it alter them; it only acts in conformity to the laws made: and the government is in like manner governed by the constitution.