"Delay is preferable to error."

"The will of the people, expressed by their representatives, is the only legitimate foundation of any government."

"I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere."

"I never did, nor do I believe I ever will, give a dollar for a newspaper. I have thought that the information it contains is not worth the expense."

"I am not a Federalist, because I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else, where I was ca…"