Americans need not fear the federal government because they enjoy the advantage of being armed, which you possess over the people of almost every other nation.

Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.... Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

People will continue to seek justice until it is found, or until liberty is lost in the pursuit.

Truth [comes only] from those ... who cultivate their reason.

No man can be a competent legislator who does not add to an upright intention and a sound judgment a certain degree of knowledge of the subject on which he is to legislate.

The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon . . . has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.

Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.