Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.
It is difficult to remember all, and ungracious to omit any.
Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
True nobility is exempt from fear.
That which is not forbidden, is not on that account permitted.
Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen.