Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics.

There is no greater guilt than the unneccessary war.

It already appears, that there must be in every society of men superiors and inferiors, because God has laid in the constitution and course of nature the foundations of the distinction.

Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.

Let them revere nothing but religion, morality and liberty.

You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.