Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.
These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery, for slavery consists in being subject to the will of another, and he that has not a vote in the election of representatives is in this case.
