"The will of the people, expressed by their representatives, is the only legitimate foundation of any government."

"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever; that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an excha…"

"I am not for transferring all the powers of the States to the General Government, and all those of that government to the Executive branch."

"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket no…"

"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical."