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

Have we the means of resisting disciplined armies, when our only defense, the militia, is put in the hands of Congress? Of what service would militia be to you when, most probably, you will not have a single musket in the state? For, as arms are to be provided by Congress, they may or may not provide them.

It is the business of a virtuous clergyman to censure vice in every appearance of it.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.

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

Is the relinquishment of the trial by jury and the liberty of the press necessary for your liberty? Will the abandonment of your most sacred rights tend to the security of your liberty? Liberty, the greatest of all earlthy blessings - give us that precious jewel, and you may take every things else! . . . Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel.

Bad men cannot make good citizens.