The truth was that all men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the state shall not be questioned.

Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression.

[The Republican Party] consists of those who, believing in the doctrine that mankind are capable of governing themselves and hating hereditary power as an insult to the reason and an outrage to the rights of men, are naturally offended at every public measure that does not appeal to the understanding and to the general interest of the community.

Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society.

A universal peace, it is to be feared, is in the catalogue of events, which will never exist but in the imaginations of visionary philosophers, or in the breasts of benevolent enthusiasts.

America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited, with a hundred thousand veterans ready for combat.