No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.

[Oppose] with manly firmness [any] invasions on the rights of the people.

No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.

Responsibility is a tremendous engine in a free government.

No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil authority.

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.

One imputation in particular has been repeated till it seems as if some at least believed it: that I am an enemy to commerce. They admit me a friend of agriculture, and suppose me an enemy to the only means of disposing of its produce.