I look on that paper (the Constitution) as the most fatal plan that could possibly be conceived to enslave a free people.

This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.

The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

The militia is our ultimate safety. We can have no security without it. The great object is that every man be armed.

We have not yet begun to fight.

Is it not amazing that at a time when the rights of humanity are defined and understood with precision, in a country, above all others, fond of liberty-that in such an age and in such a country we find men professing a religion the most humane, mild, gentle and generous, adopting a principle as repugnant to humanity as it is inconsistent with the Bible, and destructive to liberty?

It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, till she transforms us into beasts.