The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression.

The proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust and emolument unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion is depriving him injuriously of those privileges and advantages to which, in common with his fellow citizens, he has a natural right.

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.

This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, not tolerate error as long as reason is left free to combat it.

Congress has scarcely any thing to employ them, and complain that the place [Washington, D.C.] is remarkably dull.

The right to use a thing comprehends a right to the means necessary to its use, and without which it would be useless.

Although we are free by the law, we are not so in practice.