A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is power without a right. All power exercised over a nation, must have some beginning. It must be either delegated, or assumed. There are not other sources. All delegated power is trust, and all assumed power is usurpation. Time does not alter the nature and quality of either.

We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and New Testament, to be impositions, fables and forgeries.

The protection of a man's person is more sacred than the protection of his property.

For freemen like brothers agree; With one spirit endured, they one friendship pursued, And their temple was Liberty Tree

When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir.

What is it the Bible teaches us? -- rapine, cruelty, and murder.

To possess ourselves of a clear idea of what government is, or ought to be, we must trace it to its origin.