If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom...[then] crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!
Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he is not making a present or a compliment to please an individual...but rather he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country.
The said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of The United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.