Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist.

The National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman.

Resistance to sudden violence, for the preservation not only of my person, my limbs, and life, but of my property, is an indisputable right of nature which I have never surrendered to the public by the compact of society, and which perhaps, I could not surrender if I would.

We are in the the very midst of a revolution, the most complete, unexpected and remarkable of any in the history of nations.

Men must be ready, they must pride themselves and be happy to sacrifice their private pleasures, passions and interests, nay, their private friendships and dearest connections, when they stand in competition with the rights of society.

The deliberate union of so great and various a people in such a place, is without all partiality or prejudice, if not the greatest exertion of human understanding, the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen.