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

What right do they have to say "we the people" rather than we the States?

I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Everything we do is to improve it, if it happens in our day; if not, let us transmit to our descendants, together with our slaves, a pity for their unhappy lot and an abhorrence of slavery.

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

Oh, how wretched should I be at this moment, if I had not made my peace with God.

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.

Hospitality invites to prayer before it checks credentials, welcomes to the table before administering the entrance exam.