"Nothing is so disgusting to our manners and morals as the practice of gambling, and of horse-racing, which is a species of gambling."

"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of…"

"Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God."

"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms, those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."

"On this foundation I hope the whole may be made to stand; and that from this principle, every generation has a right to choose for itself the form of government it believes most promotive of its own h…"