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.

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

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 chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.

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 prudent capitalist will never adventure his capital . . . if there exists a state of uncertainty as to whether the Government will repeal tomorrow what it has enacted today.

Times change, and we change with them.