[I] never understood [what a republican government was and] I believe no other man ever did or ever will.

A militia law, requiring all men, or with very few exceptions besides cases of conscience, to be provided with arms and ammunition... is always a wise institution, and, in the present circumstances of our country, indispensable.

I was very strenuous for retaining and insisting on it [law of nature], as a resource to which we might be driven by Parliament much sooner than we were aware.

That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience.

Indeed, Mr. Jefferson, what could be invented to debase the ancient Christianism, which Greeks, Romans, Hebrews and Christian factions, above all the Catholics, have not fraudulently imposed upon the public? Miracles after miracles have rolled down in torrents, wave succeeding wave in the Catholic church, from the Council of Nicea, and long before, to this day.

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

The balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land.