The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy. They are more:….

A bad cause seldom fails to betray itself..

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war..

There is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust..

People will continue to seek justice until it is found, or until liberty is lost in the pursuit..

A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country..

The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the state shall not be questioned..

The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments a….

The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded..

If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man has a right to abolish an old government and e….

The problem to be solved is, not what form of government is perfect, but which of the forms is least imperfect..

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or ….

Our Constitution represents the work of the finger of Almighty God..

The President is responsible to the public for the conduct of the person he has nominated and appointed..

That the foundation of our national policy should be laid in private morality. If individuals be not influenced by moral principles, it is in vain to….

Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace..

Equal laws protecting equal rights…the best guarantee of loyalty and love of country..

If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one….

No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a ce….

As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed..

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse..