I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our forefathers, as Israel of old.

I learn with great concern that [one] portion of our frontier so interesting, so important, and so exposed, should be so entirely unprovided with common fire-arms. I did not suppose any part of the United States so destitute of what is considered as among the first necessaries of a farm-house.

music, drawing, books, invention & exercise will be so many resources to you against ennui.

Should things go wrong at any time, the people will set them to rights by the peaceable exercise of their elective rights.

Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves.

When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have assumed to themselves powers which the people never put into their hands, then indeed their continuing in office becomes dangerous to the state

I cannot live without books.