All Legislation Is Founded Upon The Principle

There Is No Power Like Oratory. Caesar Controlled Men By Exciting Their Fears, Cicero By . . . Swaying Their Passions. The Influence Of The One Perished; That Of The Other Continues To This Day.

Whether We Assert Our Rights By Sea, Or Attempt Their Maintenance By Land Whithersoever We Turn Ourselves, This Phantom Incessantly Pursues Us. Already Has It Had Too Much Influence On The Councils Of The Nation.

The Imposition Of Taxes Has Its Limits. There Is A Maximum Which Cannot Be Transcended. Suppose The Citizen To Be Taxed By The General Government To The Utmost Extent Of His Ability, Or A Thing As Much As It Can Possibly Bear, And The State Imposes A Tax At The Same Time, Which Authority Is To Take It?

I Always Have Had, And Always Shall Have, A Profound Regard For Christianity, The Religion Of My Fathers, And For Its Rights, Its Usages And Observances.

Peaceably If We Can, Forcibly If We Must.