When a government betrays the people by amassing too much power and becoming tyrannical, the people have no choice but to exercise their original right of self-defense — to fight the government.

To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character.

A powerful, victorious ally is yet another name for master.

Little more can reasonably be aimed at with respect to the people at large than to have them properly armed.

Its objects are CONTRACTS with foreign nations which have the force of law, but derive it from the obligations of good faith.

What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws.

Establish that a Government may decline a provision for its debts, though able to make it, and you overthrow all public morality, you unhinge all the principles that must preserve the limits of free constitutions.