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

Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.

We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

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?

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

The whole economy of this lower world proves that it is by labor and perseverance only that good is obtained and evil is avoided.