Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

Freedom and Property Rights are inseparable. You can't have one without the other.

I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.

The pure and benign light of revelation has had a meliorating influence on mankind.

Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.

Without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive.