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

A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military, supplies.

'Tis folly in one Nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its Independence for whatever it may accept under that character; that by such acceptance, it may place itself in the condition of having given equivalents for nominal favours and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more. There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate upon real favours from Nation to Nation. 'Tis an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

We must take human nature as we find it, perfection falls not to the share of mortals.

I only wish, while I am a servant of the public, to know the will of my masters, that I may govern my self accordingly.

Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself.

Let us with Caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.