"Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred."

"The safety of the people is the supreme law."

"There are some things which are not to be reasoned into, but to be felt."

"The true danger to America is the spirit of faction and disunion."

"It is a truth, which has been taught by the experience of all ages, that the people are too apt to be led astray by the arts of popular demagogues."