The people have a right to keep and bear arms.

I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.

You are not to inquire how your trade may be increased, nor how you are to become a great and powerful people, but how your liberties can be secured; for liberty ought to be the direct end of your government.

Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure

The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.

Amongst other strange things said of me, I hear it is said by the deists that I am one of the number; and indeed, that some good people think I am no Christian. This thought gives me much more pain than the appellation of Tory; because I think religion of infinitely higher importance than politics; and I find much cause to reproach myself that I have lived so long, and have given no decided and public proofs of my being a Christian. But, indeed, my dear child, this is a character which I prize far above all this world has, or can boast.

United we stand, divided we fall. Let us not split into factions which must destroy that union upon which our existence hangs.