The governments of Europe are afraid to trust the people with arms. If they did, the people would certainly shake off the yoke of tyranny, as America….

A universal peace, it is to be feared, is in the catalogue of events, which will never exist but in the imaginations of visionary philosophers, or in….

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of govern….

The primary function of government is to protect the minority of the opulent from the majority of the poor..

Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be….

The ultimate authority resides in the people, and that if the federal government got too powerful and overstepped its authority, then the people woul….

Temporary deviations from fundamental principles are always more or less dangerous. When the first pretext fails, those who become interested in prol….

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with ….

If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare... they may appoint teachers in every state... The powers of Congress would subvert ….

Although all men are born free, slavery has been the general lot of the human race. Ignorant--they have been cheated; asleep--they have been surprise….

It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage...Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be consider….

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public ….

Good conscience is the most valuable asset of all!.

Our country, if it does justice to itself, will be the workshop of liberty to the civilized world..

Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant..

But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single State, ….

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad..

Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the p….

Conscience is the most sacred of all property; other property depending in part on positive law, the exercise of that, being a natural and unalienabl….

A President is impeachable if he attempts to subvert the Constitution..

It has been said that all Government is an evil. It would be more proper to say that the necessity of any Government is a misfortune. This necessity ….