Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure

I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.

You ought to be extremely cautious, watchful, jealous of your liberty; for instead of securing your rights, you may lose them forever.

Away with your president! We shall have a king... the army will salute him as monarch; your militia will leave you and assist in making him king and fight against you. And what have you to oppose this force? What will then become of you and your rights?

....I am sure that the dangers of this system (the Federal Constitution) are real, when those who have no similar interest with the people of this country (the South) are to legislate for us - when our dearest rights are to be left, in the hands of those, whose advantage it will be to infringe them.

Bad men cannot make good citizens.

Have we the means of resisting disciplined armies, when our only defence, the militia, is put in the hands of Congress?