This house protected by an armed citizen. There is absolutely nothing here worth dying for.

Being a Christian... is a character which I prize far above all this world has or can boast.

Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom.

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?

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

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

O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if, to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people! Your arms, wherewith you could defend yourselves, are gone.