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A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

There is always room at the top.

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions

It is simple to follow the easy and familiar path of personal ambition and private gain. It is more comfortable to sit content in the easy approval of friends and of neighbours than to risk the friction and the controversy that comes with public affairs. It is easier to fall in step with the slogans of others than to march to the beat of the internal drummer - to make and stand on judgements of your own. And it far easier to accept and to stand on the past, than to fight for the answers of the future

If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity.

Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution of your country and the government established under it. Leave evils which exist in some parts of the country, but which are beyond your control, to the all-wise direction of an over-ruling Providence. Perform those duties which are present, plain and positive. Respect the laws of your country.

There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters

I regard it (the Constitution) as the work of the purest patriots and wisest statesman that ever existed, aided by the smiles of a benign Providence; it almost appears a "Divine interposition in our behalf... the hand that destroys our Constitution rends our Union asunder forever.

If all my possessions were taken from me with one exception, I would choose to keep the power of communication, for by it I would soon regain all the rest