The citizens of the United States have peculiar motives to support the energy of their constitutional charters.

An armed and trained militia is the firmest bulwark of republics - that without standing armies their liberty can never be in danger, nor with large ones safe.

Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ.

The advice nearest to my heart and deepest in my convictions is that the Union of the States be cherished and perpetuated.

In suits at common law, trial by jury in civil cases is as essential to secure the liberty of the people as any one of the pre-existent rights of nature.

[Y]ou will understand the game behind the curtain too well not to perceive the old trick of turning every contingency into a resource for accumulating force in the government.

Conscience is the most sacred of all property; other property depending in part on positive law, the exercise of that, being a natural and unalienable right.