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.

Is one of the fairest portions of the globe to remain in a state of nature, the haunt of a few wretched savages, when it seems destined by the Creator to give support to a large population and to be the seat of civilization?

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

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

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

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.