Conscience, that vicegerent of God in the human heart, whose "still small voice" the loudest revelry cannot drown.

We admit of no government by divine right, believing that so far as power is concerned the Beneficent Creator has made no distinction amongst men; that all are upon an equality, and that the only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

Conscience, that vicegerent of God in the human heart, whose "still small voice" the loudest revelry cannot drown.

The liberties of a people depend on their own constant attention to its preservation.

All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess.

Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness.

The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators.