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.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

Man is his own worst enemy.

Calamus fortior gladio.

The devil finds work for idle hands to do. Better to reign in the hell than serve in heaven. We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner.

We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.