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

I have long been settled in my own opinion that neither Philosophy, nor Religion, nor Morality, nor Wisdom, nor Interest, will ever govern nations or Parties, against their vanity, their Pride, their Resentment, or Revenge, or their Avarice, or Ambition. Nothing but Force and Power and Strength can restrain them.

Set before us the conduct of our own British ancestors, who defended for us the inherent rights of mankind against foreign and domestic tyrants and usurpers, against arbitrary kings and cruel priests; in short against the gates of earth and hell.

One sailor will do us more good than two soldiers.

The Declaration of Independence laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity.

To believe all men honest is folly. To believe none is something worse.

Thanks be to God, that he gave me Stubborness, when I know I am right.