"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground."

"The only security a free people can have for the faithful observance of their constitution and laws, is to be found in a right of taxation."

"I had rather be in my bed than up in the Senate."

"It is an axiom in my mind that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the whole people."

"I have looked on man, in the course of my life, as a chemical analysis might look on a compound substance."