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

There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us.

If you have given up your militia, and Congress shall refuse to arm them, you have lost every thing. Your existence will be precarious, because you depend on others, whose interests are not affected by your infelicity.

....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.

[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.

Suspicion is a Virtue, if in the interests of the good of the people.

The people have a right to keep and bear arms.