The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
Liberty and Union now and forever one and inseparable.
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.
I was born an American I live an American I shall die an American.
It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.
There is no refuge from confession but suicide and suicide is confession.
An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.