If you have given up your militia, and Congress shall refuse to arm them, you have lost every thing. Your existence will be precarious, because you d….

I know some say, let us have good laws, and no matter for the men that execute them: but let them consider, that though good laws do well, good men d….

The American Revolution was the grand operation, which seemed to be assigned by the Deity to the men of this age in our country, over and above the c….

Is the relinquishment of the trial by jury and the liberty of the press necessary for your liberty? Will the abandonment of your most sacred rights t….

I have the highest veneration of those Gentleman, -- but, Sir, give me leave to demand, what right had they to say, We, the People? My political curi….

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience..

Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction?.

Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations….

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may t….

Oh, how wretched should I be at this moment, if I had not made my peace with God..

. . . Virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone that renders us invincible. These are the tactics we should study.….

What right do they have to say "we the people" rather than we the States?.

The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed..

O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if, to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people! Your arms, wherewith you could defen….

Have we the means of resisting disciplined armies, when our only defense, the militia, is put in the hands of Congress? Of what service would militia….

Human nature will never part with power. Look for an example of a voluntary relinquishment of power from one end of the globe to another - you will f….

Righteousness alone can exalt them [America] as a nation. Reader! Whoever thou art, remember this, and in thy sphere practice virtue thyself and enco….

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it..

I look on that paper (the Constitution) as the most fatal plan that could possibly be conceived to enslave a free people..

Power is the great evil with which we are contending. We have divided power between three branches of government and erected checks and balances to p….

Give me liberty or give me death..