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

Natural rights [are] the objects for the protection of which society is formed and municipal laws established.

Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

We shall all consider ourselves unauthorized to saddle posterity with our debts, and morally bound to pay them ourselves; and consequently within what may be deemed the period of a generation, or the life of the majority.

We never repent of having eaten too little.

He who lights his [candle] at mine receives light without darkening me.

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.