A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.

[A]s it must be admitted that the remedy under the Constitution lies where it has been marked out by the Constitution; and that no appeal can be consistently made from that remedy by those who were and still profess to be parties to it, but the appeal to the parties themselves having an authority above the Constitution or to the law of nature & of nature's God.

In all great changes of established governments, forms ought to give way to substance

[Christianity] existed and flourishes, not only without the support of human laws, but in spite of every opposition from them.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land.

No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.