"I have not ceased to be a whole-hearted admirer of the American experiment."

"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change."

"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."

"A people who are free, and who mean to remain so, must be armed."

"The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and ingrafted into the civil institutions of the people, have become a very formidable engine against the civil rights and liberties of man."