Eternal Vigilance is the price of democracy.

The Governor would serve a five-year term and be ineligible for reelection.

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

The most effective way to find ourselves enslaved will not be done openly. If weakened we will sink gradually. I ask, who are the militia? They consist of the whole people, .... except a few public officers.

That this privilege of giving or of withholding our monies is an important barrier against the undue exertion of prerogative, which if left altogether without control may be exercised to our great oppression; and all history shews how efficacious is its intercession for redress of grievances and re-establishment of rights, and how improvident would be the surrender of so powerful a mediator

The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body.