The militia is our ultimate safety. We can have no security without it. The great object is that every man be armed..

It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains..

This house protected by an armed citizen. There is absolutely nothing here worth dying for..

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them..

Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and ….

My most cherished possession I wish I could leave you is my faith in Jesus Christ, for with Him and nothing else you can be happy, but without Him an….

Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public con….

It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, “Peace! Peace!” — but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale tha….

[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government..

If we wish to be free; if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending; if we mean not basely….

Fear is the passion of slaves..

Are we at last brought to such an humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?.

The first thing I have at heart is American liberty; the second thing is American union..

The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I Am Not A Virginian, But An American!.

The Constitution is said to have beautiful features; but when I come to examine these features, Sir, they appear to me horribly frightful. Among othe….

Suspicion is a virtue as long as its object is the public good, and as long as it stays within proper bounds. Guard with jealous attention the public….

I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Everything we do is to improve it, if it happens in o….

I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion..

The people have a right to keep and bear arms..

Be of good courage, my son, and remember that the best men always make themselves..

That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force….