"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of…"

"The most sacred of the duties of a government is to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens."

"The greatest danger to American freedom is a highly centralized government."

"I think that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious."

"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…"