"and the people of America became citizens, and not subjects; sovereigns, and not slaves"

   "The States, and the people of the States, these are the source of whatever power pertains to the Federal Government, and with them is the residuum of power. What the States have delegated, belongs to the Federal Government; what they have not, vests in themselves. What the people of any State have delegated, belongs to the State Government; what they have not, as before, abides with them. Thus our fathers overturned the old despotic ideas, and the people of America became citizens, and not subjects; sovereigns, and not slaves."

- Milton Sayler, Jan. 29-30, 1863, Speech delivered in the Ohio House of Representatives. [Daily Ohio statesman, April 01, 1863, Pg. 1.]