If this be treason, make the most of it!

Bad men cannot make good citizens.

I look on that paper (the Constitution) as the most fatal plan that could possibly be conceived to enslave a free people.

Adversity toughens manhood, and the characteristic of the good or the great man is not that he has been exempt from the evils of life, but that he has surmounted them.

The people have a right to keep and bear arms.

I shall act as I think my duty requires.

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.