"The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected."

"The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind."

"The true and proper remedy is to make the great mass of society, of all classes, their own legislators, by giving them a direct and equal representation."

"To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to conv…"

"When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary."