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.

Times change, and we change with them.

The people are the best guardians of their own rights and it is the duty of their executive to abstain from interfering in or thwarting the sacred exercise of the lawmaking functions of their government.

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

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

A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.

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.