[L]eave nothing to the uncertainty of procuring a warlike apparatus at the moment of public danger.

Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself.

No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America. Wondrously strange, then, and much to be regretted indeed would it be, were we to neglect the means and to depart from the road which Providence has pointed us to so plainly; I cannot believe it will ever come to pass.

A pack of jackasses led by a lion is superior to a pack of lions led by a jackass.

Refrain from drink which is the source of all evil-and the ruin of half the workmen in this Country.

The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the rights of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined, than at any former period.

Undertake not to teach your equal in the art himself professes; it savors arrogancy.