One man with courage is a majority.

It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them with the terrors of death. This is truly creating crimes in order to punish them.

Dependence begets subservience and paves the way for tyranny.

All men are created equal.

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.

Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state'... is absolutely essential in a free society.

The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, in-as-much as he who knows nothing is nearer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehood and errors.