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

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

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.

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

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

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