Wisdom is not the purchase of a day

The Bill of Rights should contain the general principles of natural and civil liberty. It should be to a community what the eternal laws and obligations of morality are to the conscience. It should be unalterable by any human power.

A government of our own is our natural right

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

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

There is something in meanness which excites a species of resentment that never subsides, and something in cruelty which stirs up the heart to the highest agony of human hatred.

A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.