"When the enslaved people prostrate themselves in the dust before the hurricane, like the alarmed beasts of the field, the free people stand erect before it, in all the strength of unity, in self reliance, in mutual reliance, with effrontery against all but the visible hand of God. It is neither cast down by calamity nor elated with success."

"And the maxim is no less true than old, that eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. It is curious to observe the universal pretext by which the tyrants of all times take away the national liberties."