Certainly the Government of the United States is a limited government, and so is every State government a limited government. With us this idea of limitation spreads through every form of administration - general, State, and municipal - and rests on the great distinguishing principle of the recognition of the rights of man. The ancient republics absorbed the individual in the state - prescribed his religion and controlled his activity. The American system rests on the assertion of the equal right of every man to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, to freedom of conscience, to the culture and exercise of all his faculties. As a consequence the State government is limited - as to the General Government in the interest of union, as to the individual citizen in the interest of freedom.

'The sovereignty of the States' is the language of the Confederacy, and not the language of the Constitution. The latter contains the emphatic words - This Con…

Our Government springs from and was made for the people - not the people for the Government. To them it owes allegiance; from them it must derive its courage, …

The only assurance that I can now give of the future is reference to the past. The course which I have taken in the past in connection with this rebellion must…

We have ceased to be a nation under law but instead a homeland where the withered Bill of Rights, like a dead trumpet vine, clings to our pseudo-Roman columns.

The individual who refuses to defend his rights when called by his Government, deserves to be a slave, and must be punished as an enemy of his country and frie…

I love the freedoms we got in this country, i appreciate your freedom to burn your flag if you want to, but i really appreciate my right to bear arms so i can …